The phrase "affecting competitiveness" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing factors or conditions that influence the ability of a business or entity to compete in a market.
Example: "The new regulations are affecting competitiveness among local businesses, making it harder for them to thrive."
Alternatives: "impacting competitiveness" or "influencing competitiveness".
The fact that this has not happened reinforces the argument that it is total labour costs, of which social security contributions are only a part, that affect competitiveness.
Energy taxes can thus be harmful and negatively affect competitiveness and overall economic performance.
Using a large-scale computable general equilibrium model we quantify how these protective measures affect competitiveness of US EITE industries.
Therefore, the desire to undertake large-scale IT projects for smart manufacturing adoption may remain weak until such time lost opportunities affect competitiveness.
This paper uses firm survey data from the manufacturing and mining sectors in Indonesia, and investigates the extent to which energy prices affect competitiveness (proxied by profitability).
This additional cost entering production prices in a twofold manner directly affects competitiveness of companies located in Japan compared to companies located in areas with lower feedstock prices, such as those in the United States.
In practice, too, no empirical evidence or model-based results demonstrate that an uncoordinated European trading scheme would adversely affect competitiveness to any significant extent or substantially increase industrial relocations.
If the free allocation of allowances is tied to the company's production level, then it does affect marginal production costs, and therefore does affect competitiveness.
Acosta et al. (2011) explored the factors affecting bunkering competitiveness of the ports of Gibraltar, Ceuta and Algeciras.
Studying such interconnections seems of great importance because these are affecting the competitiveness of the EU agro-food system, the distribution of the bargaining power among its actors and, at the end, the efficiency and economic performances of the EU farm sector.
