channels associated with the real economy, i.e. the global recession. These are, in particular, declines in exports, oil … revenues, tourism receipts, remittances and foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows, with the drop in exports so far appearing …

from several different angles. Germany is a stronghold in international patenting in terms of the absolute number of …-intensive sectors such as machinery and automobile, its technological presence in terms of international patent filings are very weak in … much weaker. As a remedy to this problem, international collaboration can be a candidate solution. We showed that …

recommendations of the International Labour Organisation (lLO). The first part of the paper provides-a brief introduction to the ILO … as an international organisation, its treaty base and its most important bodies. In the second part of the paper, we … focus on international labour standards. We first explain the decision-making procedure within the ILO which leads to the …

chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … and estimates the importance of international trade in intermediate inputs and internationally mobile capital for the …-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different implications of the growing importance of trade in intermediate inputs. The first …

one or more aspects of international trade and factor movements, including trade in goods, trade in value added …, international movement of labor and capital, and trade in risk. All chapters aim to contribute to our understanding of the economic … of the pattern of trade, factor flows, and production, as well as the role of barriers to the international exchange of …