Elsner, Benjamin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
that Germany would have been better off, had it immediately opened its labor market. Finally, the Great recession allows us …We study how the EU enlargement in 2004 and the Great Recession in the late 2000s have shaped the scale and composition … the restrictions on the German labor market, and that net flows decreased to zero at the outset of the recession. The …