Comparing the emigration rates of countries at different stages of economic development, an inverse u-shape emerges. Although merely based on cross-sectional evidence, the “migration hump” is often treated as a causal relationship. Since the peak is located at rather high per capita incomes...

The analysis of Baltic regional trade patterns reveals that during the nineties the Baltic states made significant progress to integrate into the Western European division of labour although a significant share of (transit) trade with Russia remained. In view of this development, history seems...

Hat die schleswig-holsteinische Exportwirtschaft dem schärferen Wettbewerbsdruck im Zuge von Globalisierung und Erweiterung der Europäischen Union standhalten können? Die Exportbilanz Schleswig-Holsteins fällt ambivalent aus. Während die Exporte Deutschlands insgesamt ähnlich stark...