Globalisation as a dominant tendency of the XXI century has initiated the rise of the scale and dynamics of economic interactions on the international, national and regional levels. Regions have started to compete as the sources of economic growth since the disproportional levels of their...

Increasing inequality in qualification specific employment prospects characterises labour markets in most highly developed countries. Theoretical models suggest that in-plant skill segregation might matter for the polarization of employment and wages. According to these models production...

This paper explains the location choices of multinational companies (MNCs) in a transition economy by traditional economic factors and institutional quality. Based on a thorough theoretical framework and a set of hypotheses, empirical data of an enterprise survey of 153 foreign firms in three...