A carbon tax will not only hurt energy industries coal, natural gas, and oil but will also decrease competitiveness for industries that depend upon the energy they produce.
A greater effort must be made to decrease competitiveness, and to fight excessive self-demands through discussion groups, mentoring, psychological and pedagogical support.
Supporters of a pass/fail grading system argue that such systems improve students' psychological well-being, decrease competitiveness, and promote cooperative learning while minimizing impact on academic performance [ 4, 5].
Lost knowledge means forsaken capabilities and potentially decreased competitiveness.
Therefore, sticky wages plus rising health care costs means decreased competitiveness and job loss.Hopefully, further study will help illuminate whether this is what is going on.
Eventually, the sovereign debt crisis might hit the real economy, with Europe ending up in a vicious circle of even higher deficits, lower growth rates, exploding unemployment and decreasing competitiveness.
We also find other-regarding preference decreases competitiveness more in a large winner proportion tournament compared to a small winner proportion tournament.
Insufficiently educated and unskilled personnel, particularly in the production and management fields, are decreasing competitiveness that is necessary for survival in the global market.
The relatively high costs and decreasing competitiveness of many of the Ruhr's heavy industries, however, including coal mining and metallurgy, have led to a concerted effort by the region to change both its economic structure and its image.
Consistent with Donald's ideas, past increases in crop yield potential have often been linked to decreased competitiveness, where competitiveness was in conflict with pure-culture yield (Reynolds et al. 1994).
