The paper argues that economic integration causes problems for the labor market of high-wage countries due to cross-border labor mobility and the accompanying increase in labor supply. Empirical evidence is provided from an analysis of regional labor market effects of German re-unification. In...

The paper argues that economic integration causes problems for the labor market of high-wage countries due to cross-border labor mobility and the accompanying increase in labor supply. Empirical evidence is provided from an analysis of regional labor market effects of German reunification. In...

This paper exploits the significant reduction in impediments to labor mobility in the process of German re-unification in order to identify labor supply shocks in the West German labor market. The focus is on the quasi-experiment of the border removal in the regions situated at the German -...

Um das Ausmaß und die Auswirkungen der pandemiebedingten Änderungen und Belastungen auf Hochschulbeschäftigte zu untersuchen, haben wir im Juni 2021 eine Umfrage an 13 deutschsprachigen Hochschulen in Deutschland und Österreich durchgeführt. Befragt wurden hierbei wissenschaftliche sowie...

This working paper introduces a method of measuring the bioeconomy for the purpose of assessing the social structure and working conditions of persons working in bioeconomic jobs. Previous measurements only allow aggregate level estimations of financial and economic contributions of the...