The strikingly different labor market performance of major industrial countries suggests that neither globalization nor skill-biased technological change necessarily result in rising unemployment or declining wages of low-skilled workers. Rather, globalization and technological change cause...

Kiev is not so far away from Brussels as one might expect. Ukraine already performs quite well when compared to the other countries in the queue for entry into the EU. Especially the fiscal and external debt figures are better than in other countries. On the negative side, there is a...

In den Wirtschaftsstrukturen der Industrieländer vollzieht sich seit den neunziger Jahren ein tiefgreifender Umbruch. Veränderungen des globalen Faktorangebots, dynamische Entwicklungen in den internationalen Marktstrukturen, das Entstehen weltweiter Produktionsnetzwerke und technologische...