The Automotive Industry and European Integration
The Divergent Paths of Belgium and Spain
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Beschreibung
This book chronicles the divergent growth trends in car production in Belgium and Spain. It delves into how European integration, high wages, and the demise of GM and Ford led to plant closings in Belgium. Next, it investigates how lower wages and the expansion strategies of Western European automakers stimulated expansion in the Spanish auto industry. Finally, it offers three alternate scenarios regarding how further EU expansion and Brexit may potentially reshape the geographic footprint of European car production over the next ten years. In sum, this book utilizes history to help expand the knowledge of scholars and policymakers regarding how European integration and Brexit may impact future auto industry investment for all EU nations.
This book chronicles the divergent growth trends in car production in Belgium and Spain. It delves into how European integration, high wages, and the demise of GM and Ford led to plant closings in Belgium. Next, it investigates how lower wages and the expansion strategies of Western European automakers stimulated expansion in the Spanish auto industry. Finally, it offers three alternate scenarios regarding how further EU expansion and Brexit may potentially reshape the geographic footprint of European car production over the next ten years. In sum, this book utilizes history to help expand the knowledge of scholars and policymakers regarding how European integration and Brexit may impact future auto industry investment for all EU nations.
Offer a comprehensive historical and country-specific comparison of the divergent development trajectories of two Western European nations Presents historically fact-based case studies of the historical development of the auto industry in these countries and analysis of their more recent growth paths Explains the effect that Brexit and further expansion of the EU could have on future trends
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A. J. Jacobs
Themen in »The Automotive Industry and European Integration«
Automobile Industry in Europe Comparative Development in Europe European Integration and the Auto Industry European Union and the Auto Industry Brexit and the Auto Industry Industry and Trade Policy Automobile Industry and Development European Integration and Uneven Development
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“A rich study of car production declining in Belgium and rising in Spain, this book is useful for understanding broader issues about the free movement of capital, goods and labor vexing an expanded European Union now facing contraction.” (Ryan James Tutak, President, Avto Corp.)
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