competitiveness at the sectoral level for Germany, and compare the empirical evidence with selected other euro area countries …-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a …-sector level as a new competitiveness indicator where the relevance of trading partners is quantified by an appropriate value …

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 …

Competitiveness differentials are blamed for the instability of the Eurozone. Most of the analyses focus on labour … costs or labour-market institutions. This paper explores an additional source of differentials in competitiveness: land and … beginning of the century. Germany is an exception. A large increase in the prices of buildings, structures and lands for private …

its competitiveness and decreased exports towards its European trading partners. Our findings do not provide empirical …

In this study, we examine the influence of competitiveness on the stability of labour relations using the example of … growing evidence on the external relevance of competitiveness by analysing gender differences in the correlation between … competitiveness and labour market success and whether these effects depend on how the students' propensity to compete is measured. By …

financing systems aimed at increasing the competition between universities by making their pubic funds dependent on their … increased competition between universities causes grade inflation …

compete and that the effect of health on competitiveness differs with socio-economic background. Health has a strongly …

, inequality is highly responsive to the increase in product market competition triggered by domestic regulatory reform …

The relationship between competition and innovation is difficult to disentangle, as exogenous variation in market … structure is rare. The 1952 breakup of Germany's leading chemical company, IG Farben, represents such a disruption. After the … Second World War, the Allies occupying Germany imposed the breakup because of IG Farben's importance for the German war …