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Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia; Feuerbaum, Carsten - 2023

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Competitiveness at the country-sector level : new measures based on global value chains

Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - 2018

We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a small share of its total cost which to a large extent...

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Unemployment in the European Union : institutions, prices, and growth

Karanassou, Marika (contributor); Sala, Hector (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Capital prices and Eurozone competitiveness differentials

Askenazy, Philippe - 2013

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 building prices. European countries, especially France,...

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On the multivariate analysis of the "Lisbon process"

Tausch, Arno (contributor); Heshmati, Almas (contributor); … - 2007

Starting from Professor Kornai's assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...

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Why does emissions trading under the EU ETS not affect firms' competitiveness? : empirical findings from the literature

Joltreau, Eugénie; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2017

Environmental policies may have important consequences for firms' competitiveness or profit-ability. However, the empirical literature shows that hardly any statistically significant effects on firms can be detected for the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). We explain why there...

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Intrafirm mobility and sex differences in pay

Ransom, Michael R. (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Manager ethnicity and employment segregation

Giuliano, Laura; Ransom, Michael R. - 2011

Using nine years of personnel records from a regional grocery store chain in the United States, this study examines the effect of manager ethnicity on the ethnic composition of employment at the firm's 73 stores. We estimate separate models with store fixed effects for several departments and...

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Food insecurity and insufficiency at low levels of food expenditures

Gundersen, Craig (contributor); Ribar, David C. (contributor) - 2005

This study uses data from the December 2003 Food Security Supplement of the CPS to compare the food insufficiency and … insecurity measures with objective measures of food expenditures and objective and subjective measures of food needs. The study … examines the general relationships between these variables and finds that reports of food hardships are positively associated …

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Efficiency versus equity in the provision of in-kind benefits : evidence from cost containment in the California WIC program

Meckel, Katherine; Rossin-Slater, Maya; Uniat, Lindsey - 2020

The government often contracts with private firms to deliver in-kind safety net benefits. These public-private partnerships generate agency problems that could increase costs, but cost-containment reforms may discourage firm participation. We study a 2012 reform of California's Special...

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