Die bevorstehende Osterweiterung der Europäischen Union (EU) stellt für die beitretenden Staaten einen bedeutenden Schritt ihrer Wiedereingliederung in das ökonomische Netzwerk Europas dar. Ein wesentliches Kriterium bei der Beurteilung des Erfolgs der Osterweiterung ist die Auswirkung des...

In this paper we demonstrate that intra-industry trade (or FDI)between identical countries could produce theobserved deterioration in the relative wages of unskilled workers.This involves a model of North-Northintegration through either increased trade flows or increased MNE-based production....

This paper investigates the effects of multinational corporations on labor standards. We argue that the previous literature has failed to distinguish the different motives that encourage firms to become multinational. Therefore, we build a stylized model of segmented labor markets with...

There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied technological transfer. Using a sample of 1,940 enterprises...