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...

This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wages and higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are disproportionally skilled. The brain drain from the poor...

I examine the causes and the consequences of differences in labor market outcomes across local labor markets within a country. The focus is on a long-run general equilibrium setting, where workers and firms are free to move across localities and local prices adjust to maintain the spatial...