Levels of analysis and key actors Sample Clauses

Levels of analysis and key actors. In carrying out the economic analysis, it was important to define the different levels at which the various types of economic impacts linked to reserves of activities might materialise. The impacts linked to the presence of a reserve of activities may be expected to be felt at different levels, e.g. the: • Enterprise level - level of economic agents (single firm; factor markets); • Industry level - level of service industry or sectoral level; and • Internal Market level – level of national, transnational and European-wide markets. There is also a need to consider how the impacts of reserved activities affect the economic welfare of different actors in the market – from consumers and intermediate users that use the services of (regulated) professionals, through to individual professionals and service providers. Among the main actors, and the types of impacts that need to be considered in relation to each group are: • Consumers – x.x. xxxxx of services to end-users, extent of consumer choice, trade-off between consumer protection and consumer choice/ value for money considerations. • Intermediate users – e.g. the price of services paid, linkages between sectors through knock-on effect multipliers. • Employers (professional services sector) – the cost implications of hiring professionals depending on whether a given profession is / is not reserved, the implications for firm competitiveness. • Mobile professionals – the ease / difficulty of working in another Member State in which a profession is regulated ( subject to a reserve of activities linked to a specific qualification requirement) and unregulated. • Service providers – ease / difficulty of market entry (for domestic providers and providers of cross-border services).