Affiliates of German firms in Eastern Europe differ from those in the rest of the world. They have smaller sales and … they employ more labor. Labor productivity is thus lower than in affiliates of German firms elsewhere. Moreover … dominate. In this paper, we aim at explaining differences in the activities of German multinational firms in Eastern and …

labor market effects of German re-unification. In the aftermath of the re-unification shock, despite some gain in employment …, border regions situated on the former German-German border are found to have experienced a fall in the relative wage position … and an increase in unemployment relative to other West-German regions. As this points to adverse labor supply effects for …

labor market effects of German reunification. In the aftermath of the reunification shock, despite some gain in employment …, border regions situated on the former German-German border are found to have experienced a fall in the relative wage position … and an increase in unemployment relative to other West-German regions. As this points to adverse labor supply effects for …

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 - German border which faced a massive increase of cross-border labor …

prosperity of regions. This article focuses on a two-country relationship and deals with the regional distribution of German … used databases by far. On the basis of 3,894 FDI projects the regional determinants of German cross-border investments in … combination of a headquarters in a German spatial planning region and an affiliate in a Czech NUTS 3 region. Concerning the …