Competitive pressures for EU industries have mounted because the international division of labour through trade has been complemented by corporate globalisation strategies. The EU is shown to' have dealt with this challenge less successfully than the other two members of the Triad. So far, it...

Die Debatte über die EU-Beitrittsperspektive der Türkei erfolgt kontrovers anhand verschiedener Argumentationslinien. Zentrale Fragen sind vor allem, wie die europäische Identität zu bestimmen ist und ob die Türkei grundsätzlich der EU beitreten sollte. Beide Aspekte werden in diesem...

This paper studies the cause of the changes, or lack of, in wage inequality in East Germany during its transition from a socialist to a market-oriented economic system. We are interested in how much of the change in the dispersion of wages can be explained by the changes in the characteristics...

Declining social and economic inequalities since the late 1990s coincided with several basic shifts in Latin America's political landscape, including an electoral turn to the left and a revival of social mobilization from below. These shifts helped to 'repoliticize' inequality and return...