Does Competition Kill or Create Jobs: Links and Drivers between Competition and Employment

Does competition kill or create jobs? A discussion on the links and drivers between competition and employment

In 2015, the OECD Global Forum on Competition tried to answer the question by exploring ways in which pro-competitive policies may support the creation of jobs or alternatively, destroy jobs. In many economies, both emerging and developed, it is often the case that opening economic sectors to protected competition is perceived as threatening existing jobs. In times of an economic downturn, a typical policy response may be retrenchment and the creation of regulatory or political barriers to competition in an effort to preserve jobs. This may be the case in merger reviews where job preserving remedies may be imposed by the enforcer. However, such barriers may in the long term prevent the creation of new jobs. Thus, the aim of this session was to explore the nature of this relationship. 

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Read the executive summary and summary of the discussion.

Executive summary and summary of the discussion | Synthèse et compte rendu de la discussion

Call for contributions | Appel à contributions

Background Note by the Secretariat | Note de référence par le Secrétariat

Competition and employment Paper by Victor Norman | Version française | Presentation

Boosting Competition to Create Better Jobs - Remarks by Klaus Tilmes

Distributional and labour market effects of EU competition policy - A general equilibrium analysis Presentation by Adriaan Dierzx

Does competition kill or create jobs? Presentation by Jean-Luc Schneider

Concurrence et emploi par Etienne Pfister