Individual wages differ substantially across regions and cities within Germany. Based on this observation, the thesis aims to shed light on the causes and the underlying microeconomic mechanisms responsible for regional differences in labor productivity. It takes the notion of local human...

Sozialpartnerschaft nimmt in der EU-Sozialpolitik eine Sonderstellung ein. Seit Anfang der 1990er Jahre gibt es die Möglichkeit, EU-Richtlinien durch Sozialpartnerabkommen auszuhandeln. Die EU-Kommission sieht in der Beteiligung der Sozialpartner einen Weg zu wirkungsvollerem Regieren....

Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Transformation ehemals zentralverwaltungswirtschaftlich organisierter Länder aus Mittel- und Osteuropa in marktwirtschaftlich organisierte Volkswirtschaften. Neben dem Ziel der Integration in das Wirtschaftsgeschehen der Europäischen Union...

In this paper, we investigate internationalization strategies of German manufacturing firms in the European Union. We give reasons for the hypothesis that traditional market strategies had been replaced by border-crossing production networking based on the comparative advantage of host countries...

A basic result of new economic geography (NEG) models is that the proximity to consumer markets impacts wages and employment within regions. The ongoing process of European integration, being targeted on the reduction of barriers to trade and factor mobility, has presumably changed relative...

This article offers a new reading ofintra-European trade based on recent developments innew international economics (Melitz, 2003; Chaney,2008). These models take the heterogeneity of firmsinto account and offer a micro-economic analysis ofthe process of selection at work for firms enteringmarkets....

The young market economies of the states in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) are knocking at the door of the EuropeanUnion. This led public and economic discussion to a debate on the question, if, considering the relative economicunderdevelopment of the reform countries compared with the...

The main goal of regionalization is the creation of free trade areas and the guarantee for countries to accede to a widened market. Many studies dealing with the effects of regional free trade agreements on trade flows already exist in the economic literature and the explosion of regional...

This paper derives a stochastic endogenous growth model that investigates the impact of European Union integration on convergence and productivity growth. We deviate from the general strand of literature by not only deriving a theoretical model for the effects of integration on the rate of...