During the course of 1980 West German enterprises and private persons were responsible for approximately DM 8.16 bn in foreign investments. The sum total of German foreign investments has now reached a level of DM 74.2 bn. Both these figures indicate the increasing internationalisation of the...

We study the regional representation of foreign workers from each EU-27 country in German regions. For most of the German neighboring countries, we find that distance significantly matters for the workplace location in Germany. The striking exception is Poland. For non-neighboring countries,...