The main hypothesis of this article is that labour liberalisation in the post-Fordist period has affected three principal areas collective bargaining coordination (coverage, dominance and control) two different ways: by attacking core (deregulation) margins (dualisation) industrial relations. Due to differences institutional structures European countries, these processes could have effects each...

This paper deals with the relation between trade and development when poverty affects individual decision making. We develop a twosector model that links production and schooling decisions under poverty with standard neo-classical trade analyses. The decision to either work or acquire skills depends on households having reached subsistence levels of income, implying that the income level of a c...

This study analyses the complex relationship between manufacturing FDI and trade in services. An examination of how recent developments in the economic landscape have resulted in changes in the industrial organisation as well the structure of multinational enterprises is presented. This analysis serves as the foundation for a discussion of fragmentation—and the increased use of traded services ...