In the debate on globalization it is often argued that multinational corporations (MNCs) have gained increasing power due to their growth and due to new global or transnational structures and strategies. This paper presents empirical evidence - especially from various national statistics ignored...

This paper discusses various ways of measuring corporate internationalisation. The concepts considered here became of crucial importance in the recent debate on globalisation, since many scholars link globalisation to a quantitative increase in the international activities of firms. However,...

In June and July 1998, the United Auto Workers Union (UAW) engaged Flint General Motors workers in one of the longest strike to take place lately in United States. Officially, the strike was launched on Health and Safety issues, as globalisation and relocation of the company were non strikeable...

This paper develops a theoretical analysis of training regimes as outcomes of a complementarity between organizational and institutional factors that determine firms' and workers' incentives as regards skills. Specifically, the paper proposes that, on the one hand, knowledge embeddedness within...

This paper proposes a model of efficiency wage with endogenous workers flows in interaction with imperfect competition on the product markets. Subject to economy-wide shocks, firms hire and fire workers thus generating a certain turnover. We show that the intensity of this turnover negatively...

Public Health des Wissenschaftszentrums Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Ministerium für Arbeit, Frauen, Gesundheit und Soziales des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt (MAFGS) am 11.2.2000 in Magdeburg durchgeführt worden ist.* Den Kontext des Workshops bildet das vom...

Im Rahmen der GKV-Gesundheitsreform 2000 wurde die Umstellung der Krankenhausfinanzierung auf ein vollständiges Fallpauschalensystem beschlossen. Das erst vor wenigen Jahren eingeführte Mischsystem aus Basis- und Abteilungspflegesätzen sowie Fallpauschalen und Sonderentgelten soll zum...

In modern democracies, the media are a key actor in the political process. They are the main source of information from which citizens draw their knowledge about political matters. From the perspective of the rationality of public opinion building the principle of diversity is regarded as the...

Neben der Europäisierung der Politik und der Globalisierung der Ökonomie ist die Wiedervereinigung eine weitere große Herausforderung für das deutsche Modell industrieller Beziehungen. Anhand der Folie des Modell Deutschland-Ansatzes wird geprüft, wie sich die Ausdehnung der Tarifautonomie...

„... an den Küsten – liest man – steigt die Flut / Der Sturm ist da, die wilden Meere hupfen / An Land, um dicke Dämme zu zerdrücken“ – dieses „Weltende“, das Jakob von Hoddis 1911, in der Endzeitstimmung vor Beginn des ersten Weltkrieges, erfühlte, findet knapp neunzig Jahre...