competition. Despite major changes and some positive effects, the reforms run the risk of getting stuck in the middle between a … centralised system of state-controlled supply and prices and a decentralised system based on regulated competition, providing … transition to regulated competition in health care provision, to strengthen the role of health insurers as purchasing agents and …

. Alternatively, productivity in the government sector would have to increase substantially.<P>Conséquences sur le marché du travail …

competition has a significant positive impact on wage premia in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. However, in … ownership per se shows no relation to premia, we interpret this result as evidence of either a low-productivity trap due to x-inefficiency ... …

competition has a significant positive impact on wage premia in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. However, in … ownership per se shows no relation to premia, we interpret this result as evidence of either a low-productivity trap due to x …

role of cross-firm dispersion in productivity in explaining dispersion in firm wage premia, as well as the factors shaping … the link between productivity and wages at the firm level. The results suggest that around 15% of cross-firm differences … in productivity are passed on to differences in firm wage premia. The degree of pass-through is systematically larger in …

markets. Focusing on subsets of OECD countries, we look at the implications of product market competition for industry wages …

This paper discusses the current state of product market competition in Iceland, including the legal and regulatory … competition law since the early 1990s have strengthened competitive forces in many sectors of the economy, and proposed amendments … have helped vigorous competition to develop in most segments, but there remain problems in pricing of access to the local …