The eastern enlargement of the European Union has prompted heated debates about social dumping related to labour standards and industrial relations. Capital mobility is seen as a crucial social dumping mechanism. The article uses time-series-cross-section data for the years 1999–2008 to...

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...

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