evolution of regional employment disparities. Therefore, this paper investigates the hypothesis of convergence for the total … paper considers different concepts of convergence. Following the cross-sectional approach to convergence provides no … evidence for a catching-up process between regions. The findings from the time series approach to convergence are mixed. The …

internationalen Migration befassen. Das zweite Kapitel untersucht die Beziehung zwischen dem steigenden Anteil der Einwanderer an der …The thesis presents three essays dealing with political, social and economic aspects of international migration. The …migration economics, labor economics, integration of immigrants, voting, political economy, economic development …

The paper studies the role of international implications after EU enlargement. Based on a formal model with migration … costs for both capital and labor, it predicts a two-sided migration from the new to the old EU countries which is later … reversed. As the migration pattern chosen by market forces turns out to be effici e nt, migration should not be artificially …