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The Impact of Product Market Competition on Employment and Wages

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  • Amable, Bruno

    () (Paris School of Economics)

  • Gatti, Donatella

    () (University of Paris 13)

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Standard economic wisdom generally stresses the benefits of increased competition on the product market. This paper proposes a model of monopolistic competition with an endogenous determination of workers flows in and out of unemployment, where wages are determined according to an efficiency wage mechanism. We show that an increase in product market competition boosts the hiring rate as well as the separation rate. Hence, the efficiency wage schedule compatible with more competition shifts upward. An adverse effect on workers’ incentive is at work which pushes real wages up to the point that increased competition may indeed generate employment losses rather than gains.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 276.

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Length: 41 pages
Date of creation: Mar 2001
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Publication status: published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2004, 56 (4), 667-686
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Keywords: efficiency wage; imperfect competition; Unemployment;

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  1. Kohns, Stephan, 2001. "Testing for Asymmetry in British, German and US Unemployment Data," IZA Discussion Papers 341, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
  2. Andrea Bassanini & Romain Duval, 2006. "The Determinants of Unemployment across OECD Countries," Post-Print halshs-00120584, HAL.
  3. Paul Frijters & Michael A. Shields, 2010. "Are Early Educational Choices Affected by Unemployment Benefits? New Theory," Discussion Papers Series 447, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
  4. Jo Seldeslachts, 2002. "Interactions Between Product and Labour Market Reforms," UFAE and IAE Working Papers 519.02, Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica (UAB) and Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC).
  5. Gersbach, Hans, 2003. "Structural Reforms and the Macroeconomy: The Role of General Equilibrium Effects," CEPR Discussion Papers 4043, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  6. Giuseppe Fiori & Giuseppe Nicoletti & Stefano Scarpetta & Fabio Schiantarelli, 2007. "Employment Outcomes and the Interaction Between Product and Labor Market Deregulation: Are They Substitutes or Complements?," Boston College Working Papers in Economics 663, Boston College Department of Economics, revised 08 Aug 2008.

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