This paper analyses the effects of minimum wages on competition in the German roofing sector. The case is particularly … East Germany which point to a substantial shift in industry structure. Minimum wages decreased both market entries and … competition for this group of firms and helped them to increase profitability. The increasing share of sole traders may indicate …

ZEW Mannheim. The main tasks are to define the concept of competitiveness at the micro, meso, and macro levels of economic …

debate on potentially negative impacts of cost-increasing energy policies on international competitiveness. We use firm …-level data from three countries with similar industry structure but different energy policies: Germany, Switzerland, and Austria …

debate on potentially negative impacts of cost-increasing energy policies on international competitiveness. We use firm …-level data from three countries with similar industry structure but different energy policies: Germany, Switzerland, and Austria …

) hypothesis that environmental regulation can improve firms’ competitiveness we distinguish regulation induced and voluntary … are induced by regulations. However, innovation that increases a firm’s material or energy efficiency in terms of material … voluntary innovations, although the effect is significantly larger for regulation-driven innovation.We conclude that the Porter …