Die aktuellsten Entwicklungen zu ausländischen Direktinvestitionen werden im jährlichen World Investment Report der Vereinten Nationen ausführlich dargestellt. Dieser Artikel fasst die wesentlichen Entwicklungen des letzten Jahres zusammen und geht auch auf das Schwerpunkthema »Investitionen...

Die UNCTAD veröffentlicht im Rahmen des World Investment Reports detaillierte Daten und Analysen zu den neuesten Trends bei ausländischen Direktinvestitionen. Der Artikel fasst die wesentlichen Erntwicklungen des letzten Jahres zusammen und geht auf das Schwerpunktthema des diesjährigen...

The aim of this study is to give an overview of recent developments in Belgium's direct investment relations with the rest of the world. The analysis is based mainly on two sets of statistics drawn up by the National Bank of Belgium, namely, data on direct investment flows from the balance of...

The deterioration of the income and employment position of unskilled workers in the OECD since the 1980s is a well-documented fact. The debate about the causes of this development is dominated by two competing hypotheses, “North-South Trade” (“globalisation”) and technological progress....

We establish four-sector general equilibrium models to investigate how an inflow of foreign capital influences the skilled–unskilled wage inequality in the presence of the endogenous public infrastructure provision. In the situation of the pure public infrastructure provision, the change of...

This paper introduces monopolistic competition into two-sector general equilibrium models to investigate the impacts of international factor mobility on the skilled–unskilled wage inequality. The basic model shows that the change of skilled–unskilled wage inequality is determined by the...

The deterioration of the income and employment position of unskilled workers in the OECD area since the 1980s is a well-documented fact. The debate about the causes of this development is dominated by two competing hypotheses, "North-South Trade" or "globalisation" and technological progress....

Abstract: The paper empirically estimates the impact of trade on labour productivity and wage inequality between skilled (white collar) and unskilled (blue collar) labour in Indian manufacturing. Analysis is undertaken using dynamic panel data estimations (GMM) for 58 manufacturing industries...

We develop a three-country heterogeneous-firm model and show that FDI liberalization in one foreign country (F1) results in the following: (i) some firms from the home country switch from export to FDI in F1; (ii) skilled labor¡¯s wage rate drops in the home country; (iii) wage inequality...

We use a panel of more than 100 countries for the period 1980 to 2002 to analyse the relationship between inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and wage inequality. We particularly check whether this relationship is non-linear, in line with a theoretical discussion. We find that the effect of...