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This paper proposes a new method to estimate the extent of job competition between workers with different schooling …
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both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …
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The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique … as surviving firms, prove to be the major source of TFP gains. Market competition from new entrants, foreign-owned firms …, and international trade also raise firm efficiency in the industry. Results strongly confirm that market competition …
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Gavosto, Venturini, Villosio (1999) find that the impact of foreign workers on the wage of natives was positive. Such a result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects of the unemployment experience are taken into...
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This paper studies the effect of product market competition on the compensation packages that firms offer to their … executives and in particular its impact on the sensitivity of pay to performance. To measure the effect of competition we use two … financial sectors as quasi-natural experiments. We provide difference in differences estimates of the effect of competition on …
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. The second solution, the regionalisation of wage bargaining, is frequently mentioned in Belgium or in Italy where regional …
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as competition intensifies between workers, the incentive for workers to cooperate with each other diminishes. We report … different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment … staff who face little competition on the job. Further, after accounting for the possibility of personality-based selection …
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Choice and competition in education have found growing support from both policy makers and academics in the recent past … for choice and competition is clear, in existing work there is rarely an attempt to distinguish between the two concepts … academic outcomes than those whose choice is more limited; and whether Primary schools facing more competition perform better …
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Building upon some education studies finding that cooperative behaviour in class yields better achievements among students, this paper presents a simple model showing that free riding incentives lead to an insufficient degree of cooperation between schoolmates, which in turn decreases the...
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This paper evaluates general achievement effects of choice and competition between private and public schools at the …
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