In this paper, we develop an allocation model of workers differentiated by their field of study to test whether … model explicitly takes into account the effects of supply and demand shifts on the allocation structure to disentangle …

both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …

out of this benefit. The most interesting result is that even emerging market economies, which have witnessed large …

This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by …

the market. A probit model was applied for repeated-cross-sections on ?specific? local areas in order to control for …

as competition intensifies between workers, the incentive for workers to cooperate with each other diminishes. We report … different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment … staff who face little competition on the job. Further, after accounting for the possibility of personality-based selection …

Choice and competition in education have found growing support from both policy makers and academics in the recent past …. Yet, evidence on the actual benefits of market-oriented reforms is at best mixed. Moreover, while the economic rationale … for choice and competition is clear, in existing work there is rarely an attempt to distinguish between the two concepts …