Using the IAB Employment Sample (IABS) covering 1980-2001 we investigate what impact the fall of the Iron Curtain has had on the skill structure of employment and wages in the western German districts neighbouring the Czech Republic. The introduction of free trade in this region, which has one...

Westeuropa hat kaum zur Kenntnis genommen, dass der Fall des Eisernen Vorhangs auch Auswirkungen auf die regionalen Arbeitsmarktstrukturen in den osteuropäischen Ländern hatte. Der Beitrag untersucht, ob die tschechische Grenzregion in unmittelbarer Nähe zu den westeuropäischen...

The aim of the paper is to assess the heterogeneity of German affiliates in the Czech Republic and their mother companies in Germany. Applying cluster analysis to firm-level data from the unique IAB-ReLOC survey, we identify four main groups of firms that partition the sample by broad sectoral...