to workplace innovation. Under our theoretical model, which extends the Cournot duopoly innovation model, local union … wage bargaining is more conducive to innovation - particularly product innovation - than competitive pay setting. We test … with process innovation …

impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S. and (3 … covering the period from 1984-2010 for Germany respectively 1992-2011 for the U.S. and apply system GMM in order to solve … Germany. A differentiation between imported intermediates (efficient sourcing strategy) and final inputs (competition) reveals …

We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe … sector in Germany. We also conduct our analysis at the individual worker level, and find that trade had a stabilizing overall …

Competitiveness differentials are blamed for the instability of the Eurozone. Most of the analyses focus on labour … costs or labour-market institutions. This paper explores an additional source of differentials in competitiveness: land and … beginning of the century. Germany is an exception. A large increase in the prices of buildings, structures and lands for private …

competitiveness at the sectoral level for Germany, and compare the empirical evidence with selected other euro area countries …-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a …-sector level as a new competitiveness indicator where the relevance of trading partners is quantified by an appropriate value …

preferences for competition. In this study, we provide a more detailed view on competitiveness by differentiating between four … competitiveness; how they predict individual and gender differences in career outcomes including income, holding a leadership position …

In this study, we examine the influence of competitiveness on the stability of labour relations using the example of … growing evidence on the external relevance of competitiveness by analysing gender differences in the correlation between … competitiveness and labour market success and whether these effects depend on how the students' propensity to compete is measured. By …