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 …

that the within-country relationship of women's employment and income is, on average, negative in Asia and Latin America … and potentially correlated shocks. In Asia and Latin America, characteristics that strengthen counter-cyclical responses … self-employment amongst women. In Asia and Latin America, there is a parallel rise in paid employment and a sharp drop in …

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. …

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 …

empirical results of a survey of the population in Germany, 175 members of the Federal German Parliament (Bundestag), and 106 … officials ("bureaucrats") from German ministries, this is not the case. Since both politicians and bureaucrats have a higher …

representative sample of the German population. The empirical estimation takes the rare events nature of becoming a nascent …