This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed … Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with competition. In particular, a one standard deviation increase in … competition in an economic sector decreases the probability that a fixed-term worker gets an open-ended contract within that …

firms with varying levels of productivity. For example, in case of firms with relatively high levels of productivity …, enforcement has to be stricter than in the case with relatively low productivity firms. Taxing the more productive seems to be the …

to higher school productivity. We discuss the evidence in this area, concluding that the impact of competition has proven … to be more mixed and modest than expected. We suggest that this in fact should not be surprising, since economic theory … market design might be necessary to ensure that competition enhances educational performance …

cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to survive) and agglomeration economies (larger cities promote … interactions that increase productivity), possibly reinforced by localised natural advantage. To distinguish between them, we nest … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the …

cities causes urban frictions. How important are these frictions in shaping the spatial economy? We develop and quantify a …-size distribution? Do they affect individual city sizes? Do they contribute to the productivity advantage of large cities and the … toughness of competition in cities? The short answers are: no; yes; and it depends …

competitiveness (i.e. productivity, wages and profits) while controlling for key econometric issues such as time-invariant unobserved … competitiveness vary across sectors: while temporary employment is found to enhance productivity and profits in (labour …

Productivity (TFP) than incumbents. Increased competition from new entrants leads incumbents to reduce the price of union …Using panel data for nearly all service providers in a single industry sector, we examine productivity responses to … changes in competition in the United States. The sector offers workplace employee representation through trade union branches …

rationalize this by assuming that idiosyncratic non-pecuniary conditions interact with money wages in workers' decisions to work …, firms are price-makers and wage-setters. Our setting combines monopolistic and monopsonistic competition, thus encapsulating …

for the efficient provision of goods and services in a market economy. This paper explores the implications of school … can explain several puzzling findings in the economics of education, including the fact that competition can, but does not …

economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular but also that the … electoral outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is …