of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite … that Germany would have been better off, had it immediately opened its labor market. Finally, the Great recession allows us …

This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the …

European Union. Regression results are provided for Western Germany, France, and Italy. It is shown that labour mobility is … highest in Germany, followed by France, and Italy. However, even in Germany, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by …

estimates of the productivity premium of German firms exporting to the Euro-zone and beyond, controlling for unobserved time … invariant firm specific effects, and tests for self-selection of more productive firms into exporting beyond the Euro-zone. (3 … share of outliers. Using a clean sample without outliers the estimated productivity premium of firms that export to the Euro-zone …

for social custom effects in the determination of union membership. Using panel data for Germany, we find evidence for …

tracking. We calibrate the model for Germany and study how relative demand shifts toward more general skills and changes in the …