We analyze the regional competitiveness of NUTS1 German and Belgian regions using firm level data. By doing so, we want to stress the importance of heterogeneity between regions within countries, as well as of firm heterogeneity, in the context of competitiveness analysis. We thus take a step...

In recent years, Europe has witnessed an accelerated process of economic integration. Trade barriers were removed, the euro was introduced and ten new member states have joined the European Union. This paper analyzes how this process of increased economic integration has affected labor and...