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This short essay surveys recent literature on the competitive saving motive and its broader economic implications. The competitive saving motive is defined as saving to improve one's status relative to other competitors for dating and marriage partners. Here are some of the key results of the...
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This short essay surveys recent literature on the competitive saving motive and its broader economic implications. The competitive saving motive is defined as saving to improve one's status relative to other competitors for dating and marriage partners. Here are some of the key results of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009357
We introduce international mobility of knowledge workers into a model of Nash equilibrium IPR policy choice among countries. We show that governments have incentives to use IPRs in a bidding war for global talent, resulting in Nash equilibrium IPRs that can be too high, rather than too low, from...
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by changes in legislation. -- product market competition ; fixed-term employment ; labor contract …This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed … Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with competition. In particular, a one standard deviation increase in …
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broader context of labor markets where formal job creation is costly, and where formal employment, informal employment, and …
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This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed … Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with competition. In particular, a one standard deviation increase in … competition in an economic sector decreases the probability that a fixed-term worker gets an open-ended contract within that …
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of passenger rail on the Ostrava-Prague line motivated the entry of two new private providers. The resulting competition …
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form of competition between native and migrant populations. Analyzing new data from Poland and taking advantage of the … mating market competition in Poland. More than 2 million Ukrainian refugees are now in Poland, and more than 80\% of them are … surveys targeting nearly 10,000 Polish citizens, we show that concerns over mating competition make Polish women less …
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We introduce international mobility of knowledge workers into a model of Nash equilibrium IPR policy choice among countries. We show that governments have incentives to use IPRs in a bidding war for global talent, resulting in Nash equilibrium IPRs that can be too high, rather than too low, from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141779
endogeneity of collusion. -- Competition ; collusion ; productivity …
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