Public opinion in Europe seems worried about the effect of lower-wage country competition. In both newspaper articles and in policy debates, the term ‘social dumping’ is becoming more and more popular. In many countries, trade unions worried by the effect of what they call ‘unfair...

This paper uses a vertical differentiation duopoly framework to analyze firms’ relocation decisions, when the removal of trade barriers or restrictions on capital outflows or inflows (“globalization”) allows them to serve the domestic market through foreign plants in low-wage countries....

This paper uses a vertical differentiation duopoly framework to analyze firms’ relocation decisions, when the removal of trade barriers or restrictions on capital outflows or inflows (“globalization”) allows them to serve the domestic market through foreign plants in low-wage countries....

In many european countries, public opinion seems to be worried about the effect of lower-wage country competition. In newspapers' articles, as well as in policy debates, the terms "social dumpingll becomes more and more popular. Trade unions, worried by the effect of what they call "unfair...

This paper uses a vertical differentiation duopoly framework to analyze firms` relocation decisions, when the removal of trade barriers or restrictions on capital outflows or inflows (globalization) allows them to serve the domestic market through foreign plants in low-wage countries. The...