Diese Studie zielt darauf ab, wirtschaftliche Globalisierung und deren Auswirkungen auf den Arbeitsmarkt am Beispiel der deutschen, japanischen und amerikanischen Automobilindustrie zu konkretisieren. Drei Fragen stehen im Mittelpunkt: Inwieweit sind Entwicklungs- und Schwellenlander selbst in der relativ technologie- und humankapitalintensiven Automobilindustrie zu international wettbewerbsfahigen Anbietern herangereift? Finden sich aus einfachen Handelsmodellen abgeleitete Erwartungen bestatigt, dass das Vordringen von Niedrigeinkommenslandern auf den Weltmarkten mit negativen Einkommens-...

Fueled by the ongoing debate about the distributive effects of the Washington Consensus, the dynamics of poverty and inequality have returned to the center of attention of academic scholars, policymakers, and the public at large. The main obstacles to analyzing this issue are incomplete income and consumption data in developing countries. Hence, the book presents a new dynamic cross-survey microsimulation methodology and applies it to generate the database for a detailed case study on Bolivia during the era of structural reforms. Building upon this database, the dynamics of different...

Fueled by the ongoing debate about the distributive effects of the Washington Consensus, the dynamics of poverty and inequality have returned to the center of attention of academic scholars, policymakers, and the public at large. The main obstacles to analyzing this issue are incomplete income and consumption data in developing countries. Hence, the book presents a new dynamic cross-survey microsimulation methodology and applies it to generate the database for a detailed case study on Bolivia during the era of structural reforms. Building upon this database, the dynamics of different...