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This paper examines determinants of the agrarian structure in transition economies with an emphasis on the role of rural households’ human capital. Farm restructuring has resulted in a broad range of farm types, such as co-operatives, partnerships, individual farms and combinations of them. In...
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Using unique new data and a recently introduced non-linear decomposition technique this paper shows that the huge difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and human capital intensity.
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This paper studies how portable skill accumulated in the labor market are. Using rich data on tasks performed in occupations, we propose the concept of task-specific human capital to measure the transferability of skills empirically. Our results on occupational mobility and wages show that labor...
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regional research. Predicting the East German outmigration to West Germany and the potential migration gains from Eastern … Europe is of general interest for regional policy in East Germany. Strong migration gains are expected particularly from … Poland, the direct neighbour of East Germany and the sixth-largest EU country. Even in case of German internal migration …
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