Many people in the European Union fear that Eastern Enlargement will lead to major job losses. More recently, these fears about job losses have extended to high skill labor and IT jobs. The paper examines with new firm level data whether these fears are justified for the two neighboring...

Aus der EU-Osterweiterung ergeben sich nicht nur für die Beitrittsländer, sondern auch für Deutschland Chancen, wenn die Voraussetzungen dafür geschaffen werden. Diese Möglichkeiten und Bedingungen beschreiben Juergen B. Donges aus volkswirtschaftlicher Perspektive und Andreas Schleef aus...

As the role of the multinational enterprise (MNE) in the economic development of countries grows, a focus on how MNEs influence the process of regulatory and legislative structures has developed among scholars of international political economy. Yusaf H. Akbar draws a conceptual link between the...

Many people in the European Union fear that Eastern Enlargement will lead to major job losses. More recently, these fears about job losses have extended to high skill labor and IT jobs. The paper examines with new firm level data whether these fears are justified for the two neighboring...