Globalization and the growing integration of national markets have had profound effects on the operation of markets, not least labour markets. In this book, a range of leading commentators on globalization and labour markets present original contribution on the interaction between these two...

This paper estimates the cross-price elasticity of exports with respect to investment costs for bilateral relations between the US and 35 partner countries. We show that the relationship depends on country characteristics as predicted by the Markusen et al. (1996) model. When countries differ in...

In this paper we examine the impact of the level of the exchange rate, volatility in the exchange rate and exchange rate expectations on outward US foreign direct investment in 12 developed countries and inward foreign direct investment to the USA from those countries for the period from 1983 to...