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The Effect of Product Market Competition on Job Instability

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2011

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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The Role of Demographics in Precipitating Crises in Financial Institutions

Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009

There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears to be one of the key age groups in these effects, with increases in that age group exerting...

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Competing with Asking Prices

Lester, Benjamin - 2013

variety of real world markets, asking prices have received little attention in the academic literature. We construct an …

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Convergence in Institutions and Market Outcomes : Cross-Country and Time-Series Evidence from the BEEPS Surveys in Transition Economies

Mitra, Pradeep K.; Muravyev, Alexander; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2021

market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending … interpretation of the evidence on competition is that there is an initial move by firms into niches to exploit local market power …

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Education and Health : The Role of Cognitive Ability

Bijwaard, Govert - 2013

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality using a structural equation model suggested by Conti et al. (2010). We extend their model by allowing for a duration dependent variable, and an ordinal educational variable. Data...

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Competitiveness at the Country-Sector Level : New Measures Based on Global Value Chains

Marczak, Martyna - 2018

rates. Using the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) we employ the proposed indicators to shed new light on changes in cost …

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School Competition and Students' Entrepreneurial Intentions : International Evidence Using Historical Catholic Roots of Private Schooling

Falck, Oliver - 2010

effect of private-school competition on students' entrepreneurial intentions. We exploit Catholic-Church resistance to state …

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Strategic Behavior Across Gender : A Comparison of Female and Male Expert Chess Players

Gerdes, Christer - 2010

This paper aims to measure differences in risk behavior among expert chess players. The study employs a panel data set on international chess with 1.4 million games recorded over a period of 11 years. The structure of the data set allows us to use individual fixed-effect estimations to control...

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Sluggish Institutions in a Dynamic World : Can Unions and Industrial Competition Coexist?

Hirsch, Barry T. - 2021

During the 1930s and 1940s, collective bargaining emerged as the workplace governance norm in much of the U.S. industrial sector. Following its peak in the 1950s, union density in the U.S. private sector fell steadily, to only 7.4 percent in 2006. Governance shifted from a formalized union norm...

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Market Orientation and Gender Wage Gaps : An International Study

Zweimüller, Martina; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2021

in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in …

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