market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending … interpretation of the evidence on competition is that there is an initial move by firms into niches to exploit local market power …

deregulation. Road driver output is individualized, and pay is on the basis of a piece rate (mileage). However, road drivers work … companies paid more than those for TL companies, but in LTL the union earnings premium was maintained following deregulation and …

with the best access to local telecommunications infrastructures. These same attributes have been associated with rising …

effects from domestic product market competition, labor market competition, or import penetration. …

This paper is a contribution to the debate on policy complementarity in relation to deregulation in the product and … labour markets. We develop a model of dynamic efficiency wages and monopolistic competition. Whereas most of the literature … points toward the gains associated to an increase in product market competition coupled with an increased flexibility of the …

In this paper we study how promoting product market competition by reducing mark-ups or by increasing productivity are …

in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in …

countries over the period 1980-2002, we present evidence that product market deregulation is more effective at the margin when … labor market regulation is high. Moreover, there is evidence in our sample that product market deregulation promotes labor … market deregulation. We show that these results are mostly consistent with the basic predictions of a standard bargaining …