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In recent years, some of China’s leading firms have made headlines with their European expansion, by either opening new facilities or by acquiring or merging with significant enterprises in Europe. The goal of this paper is to contribute to the existing literature by examining Chinese...

Arbeitsmarkttheorie und Arbeitsmarktpolitik legen das Hauptaugenmerk auf die Höhe und die Dauer der Arbeitslosenunterstützung und die davon ausgehenden Wirkungen auf die Arbeitslosigkeit und schenken den Voraussetzungen, unter denen ein Anspruch auf Arbeitslosenunterstützung entsteht, wenig...

The paper contributes to the globalization debate by scrutinizing the international spillover effects which are provoked if a single country reduces the generosity of the unemployment compensation system or weakens labor union power. For this purpose a two-country model with imperfect...

The largest multinational and transnational corporations are key actors in the world economy. Their number has significantly increased in the last decades both in the developed and the developing countries. Consequently, they are more dispersed globally than in the past. As the world’s largest...

This paper analyzes the impact of globalization on the exit behavior of manufacturing firms in one of the world’s most open economies: Belgium. We find that imports from low-wage countries exert a strong competitive effect that lowers a firm’s chances of survival. This competitive effect is...