In oligopolistic industries, increased cost saving opportunities via offshoring have a moderating effect on trade unions. In order to discourage mobile firms from leaving the country, unions accept lower sector wages. In effect, the negotiated wage becomes independent of workers' bargaining...

Klappentext: Wirtschaftspolitische Maßnahmen werden häufig damit begründet, dass anderenfalls Investitionen ins Ausland verlagert würden und Exporte, Forschung, Wachstum sowie Beschäftigung im Inland sinken könnten. Zur Beurteilung dieser Argumente arbeitet der Autor die wesentlichen...

This paper investigates whether the higher prevalence of South multinational enterprises (MNEs) in risky developing countries may be explained by the experience that they have acquired of poor institutional quality at home. We confirm the intuition provided by our analytical model by empirically...

We study how incentives for North-South technology transfers in multinational enterprises are affected by labour market institutions. If workers are collectively organised, incentives for technology transfers are partly governed by firms' desire to curb trade union power. This will affect not...