We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and the East - China and Eastern Europe - in … the period 1988-2008 on German local labor markets. Using detailed administrative data, we exploit the cross … and export exposure. We find that the rise of the East in the world economy caused substantial job losses in German …

This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using … providing the first evidence on the role of foreign ownership for firm survival in Germany, one of the most important … for foreign owned firms in West Germany but not in East Germany. …

rates on real output growth for several European countries, using German interest rates as the instrument. We compare this … policy was more independent of Germany. …

German-speakers would increase only modestly even under the counterfactual scenario of a regionally equal distribution of … immigrants across Germany. …

choice but to proceed relatively fast. Others, such as East Germany and Czechoslovakia, could have retained the centrally …

We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe … – in the period 1988–2008 on German local labor markets. Using detailed administrative data, we exploit the cross … and export exposure. We find that the rise of "the East" in the world economy caused substantial job losses in German …

Trade and migration have become more important in recent years for Austria and Germany. The transition in Central and …. Imports affect employment negatively and exports have a positive effect on wages. The German results indicate that immigration … market might be somewhat negatively affected by the East enlargement of the EU, the German labor market will not. …

immigration and absorption experience of ethnic Germans (Aussiedler) from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in Germany … after they have moved to Germany. Whereas all studies on the economic effects of migrant networks found a positive impact on … less encouraging. In recent years migrant networks seem to support ethnic German minority enclaves and an increasing …

affect employment. Our strategy detects salient adjustments at the extensive margin for German MNEs. With every percentage … increase in German wages, German MNEs allocate 2,000 manufacturing jobs to Eastern Europe at the extensive margin and 4 …