Die politische Einigung auf das Europäische Gesetz zu kritischen Rohstoffen (Critical Raw Materials Act, CRMA) markiert einen bedeutenden Schritt in Richtung einer gemeinsamen Rohstoffpolitik der Europäischen Union (EU). In Anbetracht wachsender geopolitischer Spannungen strebt die EU nach...

This volume was prepared by Inga Heiland while she was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in July 2016 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It comprises five chapters addressing one or more aspects of international trade and...

Employee involvement is a contested concept in organizations. While the mainstream of the research debate has focused on measuring the strength of employee involvement (EI), this article emphasizes the existence of very different forms of EI. It draws on case studies of the German, Brazilian and...

In the current public discussion, it is considered certain that we are living in a time of rapidly advancing automation, which is driven in particular by the use of robots. Accordingly, many academic publications use robot density as the central indicator of automation. The present study...

This paper is concerned with the interaction of regulated efficiency and World Trade Organization (WTO) accession and its impact on China’s motor vehicle sector. The analysis is conducted using a 23 sector–25 region computable general equilibrium model. Regulatory reform and internal...

This paper considers the demand for job training and its interaction with organization adjustments through rotation within a team and relocation across teams in response to demand and supply shocks. The analysis includes estimations of determinants of on-thejob training, and of how much such...

With international trade spluttering amidst the Great Recession, there is renewed interest in the factors driving firm-level export performance in Asia's super exporter - The People's Republic of China (PRC). While early studies suggested that innovation was important, there has been little...

Das Wachstum in China ist ins Straucheln geraten. Für das Jahr 2016 rechnet die OECD mit einem realen BIP-Wachstum von 6,7%. Im Zeitraum von 2002 bis 2011 hatte China noch ein jährliches BIP-Wachstum von 10,6% erzielt. Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, Universität Duisburg-Essen, geht für die Zukunft...

Ist Montage einfache Arbeit, die nach kurzer Einarbeitung auch von Ungelernten bewältigt werden kann? Oder ist Montage moderne Arbeit mit Anspruch an Qualität und Mitdenken innerhalb Ganzheitlicher Produktionssysteme? Und ist Montage überhaupt noch ein zukunftsfähiges Thema in Deutschland?...