Am Beispiel der Automobilindustrie beleuchten die Autoren die Verlagerung von Arbeitsplätzen von West- nach Mittelosteuropa sowie die damit verbundenen Risiken für das ""europäische Sozialmodell"". Wie zukünftig die Arbeitsmodelle und die industriellen Beziehungen aussehen werden, hängt...

This paper proposes a model in which the removal of barriers to trade and factor mobility is associated with endogenous fragmentation of the value-added chain. Fragmentation is the outcome of cost competition - the profit-maximizing choice of cost structure by monopolistically competitive firms....

Fragmentation of the value-added-chain is modeled as the reaction of monopolistically competitive firms to the removal of barriers to trade and factor mobility in an integrated trading environment. Since fragmentation requires high-skilled labor, this form of globalization can induce labor...