Das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft hat das Institut für Weltwirtschaft beauftragt zu untersuchen, wie sich sektorspezifische, regionale und allgemeine Beihilfensysteme auf die Wettbewerbsbedingungen innerhalb der EG auswirken. Das Institut legt hiermit den Endbericht dieser Untersuchung vor....

Das Institut für Weltwirtschaft ist im Frühjahr 1989 von der Schleswig-Holsteinischen Landesregierung beauftragt worden, für die Denkfabrik des Ministerpräsidenten eine Studie über die Struktur und die -Entwicklungsperspektiven der Wirtschaft Schleswig-Holsteins durchzuführen. Aufgabe...

While popular opinion often pictures FDI flowing in search of lowest-wage, lowest-skilled activities in emerging markets, actual FDI to such countries increasingly addresses medium to high-skilled manufacturing sectors. Such FDI might be called 'Quality FDI' that contributes to the creation of...

Digitalization offers a variety of opportunities for female empowerment and for a more equal female participation in labor markets, financial markets, and entrepreneurship. Currently, digitalization seems to favor female labor force, since women face on average lower risk of being replaced by...

Globalization and European integration are substantially changing the interregional division of labor in Europe and the industrial specialization of European regions, thereby potentially affecting the extent of disparities between countries and regions. This paper reviews several theoretical...

The ongoing process of European integration is likely to increase trade and factor mobility thereby increasing interregional competition and affecting the interregional division of labor. From a theoretical standpoint, rising specialization and polarization of European regions may result from...

This paper discusses the challenges that European Monetary Union (EMU) poses for European labor markets, emphasizing in particular the regional dimension of the European unemployment problem. The authors argue that the inability of labor markets to adjust to shocks is largely a regional problem...

This paper solves one of the puzzles in the analysis of regional and industrial distributions of economic activity, the discrepancy between absolute and relative measures. It shows that the difference between an absolute and a relative Theil index of localization can be expressed in terms of...