There is a startling gap between current thinking on, allegedly, globalization-induced changes in international competition for foreign direct investment and the lack of recent empirical evidence on shifts in the relative importance of traditional and non-traditional determinants of such...

The labour markets in the developed countries have experienced two fundamental changes in recent years. Firstly, high-skilled workers have gained at the expense of low-skilled workers, which manifests itself in a rising skill premium and/or a rising disparity in the unemployment rates of these...

Even though the automobile industry is technologically advanced, the increasing integration of low-income countries into the global division of labor has put competitive pressure on traditional automobile producing countries. New end-producers emerged in Asia, Latin America as well as Southern...