Labor Market Effects of Economic Integration - The Impact of Re-Unification in German Border Regions

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 supply. The results indicate that despite of a gain in employment, the border removal was accompanied with a decline in wages and an increase in unemployment relative to other West German regions

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Year of publication:	2008
Authors:	Rincke, Johannes ; Büttner, Thiess
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Wirtschaftsintegration \| Economic integration \| Deutschland \| Germany \| Grenzregion \| Border region \| Nationale Einheit \| National unity \| Beschäftigungseffekt \| Employment effect \| Regionaler Arbeitsmarkt \| Regional labour market \| EU-Staaten \| EU countries \| Theorie \| Theory \| Osteuropa \| Eastern Europe \| Schätzung \| Estimation \| Arbeitsmobilität \| Labour mobility \| EU-Mitgliedschaft \| EU membership
Description of contents:	Abstract [papers.ssrn.com]

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	In: German Economic Review, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 536-560 Volltext nicht verfügbar
Classification:	J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; R23 - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population ; F15 - Economic Integration
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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