Can competition and the existence of profit-seeking actors in the school market improve educational quality? To see … considering evidence from regular markets that competition and the presence of for-profit actors should spur innovation. Our … epistemic problem, which impedes the beneficial effects of competition and the profit-motive. First, the view of knowledge …

both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper evaluates general achievement effects of choice and competition between private and public schools at the …