Mit der ökonomischen Globalisierung geht auch eine Internationalisierung des Konfliktfelds der Arbeitsregulierung einher. Sie findet ihren Ausdruck in der Debatte um internationale Arbeits- und Sozialstandards, die sowohl Menschenrechtsverletzungen als auch den Deregulierungsdruck einer...

Recent trade negotiations, both at the regional and multilateral level, have seen a resurgence of the issue of trade and labour standards. As the world economy becomes increasingly globalised and the volume of world trade flows keeps increasing between the North and the South, it is very likely...

We investigate the empirical impact of violence as compared to other trade impediments on trade flows. Our analysis is based on a panel data set with annual observations on 177 countries from 1968 to 1999, which brings together information from the Rose [2004] dataset, the ITERATE dataset for...

We consider the evolution of preferences when trade occurs between two countries. We show that if one country is much larger than the other, its preferences can eventually take over the preferences of the second country. This result may provide an explanation of why small countries sometimes...