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Escaping the low pay trap: do labour market entrants stand a chance?
Pavlopoulos, Dimitris; Fouarge, Didier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper investigates the wage and employment perspectives of low-wage labour market entrants, using panel data from the UK, the Netherlands, and Germany. We apply a competing risks hazard model of transitions from low pay to higher pay, to unemployment or to inactivity. Low pay is found to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835443
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Bayesian Survival Modelling of University Outcomes
Vallejos, Catalina; Steel, Mark F. J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The aim of this paper is to model the length of registration at university and its associated academic outcome for undergraduate students at the Pontificia Universidad Cat´olica de Chile. Survival time is defined as the time until the end of the enrollment period, which can relate to different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108352
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The Effect of Motivation on Self-Employment Duration in Germany: Necessity versus Opportunity Entrepreneurs
Block, Joern; Sandner, Philipp - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP), we analyze whether necessity and opportunity entrepreneurs differ in terms of self-employment duration. We find that the two types of entrepreneurs differ regarding their duration in self-employment. Once controlled for educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836518
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Product Market Predatory Threats and the Use of Performance-sensitive Debt
Kjenstad, Einar; Su, Xunhua - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We use a variant of the Hotelling (1929) model to illustrate that, when a firm faces hard payment constraint(s), financially strong rivals may adopt predatory strategies to drive the firm out of the product market and hence to obtain extra profit from enhanced market power later on. Predation is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259676
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Classical competition and regulating capital: theory and empirical evidence
Tsoulfidis, Lefteris; Tsaliki, Persefoni - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Abstract In this article we discuss the salient features of the classical and neoclassical theories of competition and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260161
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An empirical investigation of the effects of concentration on profitability among US banks
Fiona, Tregenna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper analyses the effects of concentration on profitability in the US banking sector from 1994-2005, using bank-level panel data. A new index of concentration is proposed, which reflects the depth and intensity of concentration. The econometric specification facilitates the simultaneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835748
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Information Acquisition and Innovation under Competitive Pressure
Barbos, Andrei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
between product market competition and the level of innovative activity in an industry. Recent empirical papers point to an … inverted-U shape relationship between competition and innovation. Our paper offers theoretical support to these results while … show that firms solve this trade-off precisely so as to generate the inverted-U shape relationship. When the competition in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548840
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Is Google the next Microsoft? Competition, Welfare and Regulation in Internet Search
Pollock, Rufus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Internet search (or perhaps more accurately `web-search') has grown exponentially over the last decade at an even more rapid rate than the Internet itself. Starting from nothing in the 1990s, today search is a multi-billion dollar business. Search engine providers such as Google and Yahoo! have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619803
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Regulatory Approaches to NGNs: An International Comparison
Marcus, J. Scott; Elixmann, Dieter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
related to the nature of market power. Will NGNs enable new forms of competition? Will competitive bottlenecks remain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621924
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Market competition and innovation in Luxembourg
Peroni, Chiara; Gomes Ferreira, Ivete - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper studies the empirical relation between market competition and innovation using Luxembourg's Structural … on the idea of cost-efficiency. From this, the paper analyses the relation between competition and innovation performance … characterised by low levels of competition intensity, especially in markets relevant to competition policy and regulation. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109214