A recent phenomenon of globalisation has come to be known as "Knowledge Process Outsourcing" (KPO), whereby knowledge-intensive R&D work is outsourced to an outside firm or an offshore-subsidiary. Primary motives of KPO are thought to be availability of highly-skilled labour, locations of...

We introduce search unemployment à la Pissarides into Melitz’ (2003) model of trade with heterogeneous firms. We allow wages to be individually or collectively bargained and analytically solve for the equilibrium. We find that the selection effect of trade influences labor market outcomes....

We document the recent phenomenon of uphill flows of capital from nonindustrial toindustrial countries and analyze whether this pattern of capital flows has hurt growth innonindustrial economies that export capital. Surprisingly, we find that there is a positivecorrelation between current...

This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namelythe relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-basedemployment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs)...

Im Rahmen der Diplomarbeit ist in Zusammenarbeit mit der IHK zu Schwerineine Befragung der Unternehmen des verarbeitenden Gewerbes und derDienstleistungsbranche Westmecklenburgs zum Thema "Analyse der Auslandsaktivitätenvon Unternehmen in Westmecklenburg" durchzuführen.Die Analyse soll dazu...

In seiner Jahressitzung 2003 hat sich das Kuratorium des RKW - Rationalisierungs-und Innovationszentrums der Deutschen Wirtschaft mitder Finanzierung des deutschen Mittelstands im Zeitalter derGlobalisierung auseinandergesetzt. Die wichtigsten Beiträge derKuratoriumsmitglieder werden hier...