Die Verlagerung von Arbeitsplätzen in die neuen EU-Beitrittsländer spielt derzeit in der arbeitsmarktpolitischen Diskussion eine große Rolle. Inwieweit hat sich die Öffnung der mittel- und osteuropäischen Beitrittsländer auf die Direktinvestitionen deutscher Unternehmen ausgewirkt? Welche...

Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...

Two or three decades from now, economic historians will note that a hallmark of successful transformation in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) was the speed in which it became a non-issue for the body politic. A corollary of this is the expectation that, as formerly centrally planned economies...

Based on a spatially augmented gravity model the current paper isolates spatial interrelationships in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) not only across the destination but also across the origin country dimension of FDI. Results show that: (i)...

The tradition of gravity models is in the analysis of trade flows with market size and geographic or economic distance as core variables. Both these variables can be important determinants of FDI, too. However, when such models are used to explain FDI, there can be differences in the mode of...

Für Arbeitskräfte aus den mittel- und osteuropäischen Beitrittsländern der Europäischen Union (EU) sind die Möglichkeiten, in Deutschland einer Beschäftigung nachzugehen, stark eingeschränkt. Dennoch kam es nach der EU-Osterweiterung von 2004 zu einem deutlichen Anstieg der Zuwanderungen...

In this paper, we use 1991-2005 panel data on the unemployed, vacancies, inflow into unemployment, and outflow from unemployment in five former communist economies and in the western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the evolution of unemployment together with that of...

In der Forschung und der technologischen Entwicklung fällt die Europäische Union immer weiter gegen ihre Hauptkonkurrenten USA und Japan zurück. Hauptgrund sind nach Angaben der Europäischen Kommission zu niedrige Forschungsaufwendungen der Unternehmen. Die zur Behebung dieses Defizits von...

National science and technology (S&T) systems are mentioned, in politics as well as in science, as a condition for the competitiveness of domestic high technology industries. An active S&T policy has, therefore, great importance for governments. Eastern European countries see, in an active S&T...