This study was commissioned by the European Commission, Directorate General "Enterprise and Industry" and was completed at the end of 2005. The objective was to investigate the impact of the accession of new member states on the intra-European division of labour and on global competitiveness in...

The development of production, prices and employment in the EU electrical industry between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s is analysed in order to test the hypothesis that the competitive pressure from low-income countries has led to the observed decline of the employment share of low-skilled...

Der Autor berichtet von den Ergebnissen, der Kooperation des ifo-Instituts mit anderen Wirtschaftsforschungsinstituten, die sich zum "European Economic Research and Advisory Consortium" (ERECO) zusammengeschlossen haben. Die ERECO-Präsentation umfaßt drei Abschnitte