A burgeoning literature has emerged during the last two decades to assess the economic impacts of immigration on host countries. In recent years much research has been at the national level under the assumption that impacts in open regions may dissipate through adjustment processes such as...

Fifteen years after German reunification, the facts about slow regional convergence have born out the prediction of Barro (1991), except that migration out of East Germany has not slowed down. I document that in particular the 18-29 year old are leaving East Germany, and that the emigration has...

Die Humankapitaltheorie sagt voraus, dass mit einem Berufswechsel Hu-mankapitalinvestitionen in berufsspezifische Fähigkeiten erforderlich sind. Insofern sollten sich regionale Unterschiede im Berufsangebot auf das erwartete Einkommen in der Zielregion auswirken. Erfassen bestehende...

Fifteen years after German reunification, the facts about slow regional convergence have born out the prediction of Barro (1991), except that migration out of East Germany has not slowed down. I document that in particular the 18-29 year old are leaving East Germany, and that the emigration has...