This article deals with the domestic location of German multinational firms which have affiliates in the Czech Republic. Due to the common border the Czech Republic represents an attractive target country for both vertical and horizontal direct investments. In the year 2009 the sum of direct and...

Although it was barely analysed in the literature, the fall of the Iron Curtain also had effects on the regional structures of the labour markets in the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs). Focusing on the Czech Republic I analyse whether, during the undoubtedly increasing integration...

This paper focuses on the role of classifying types of foreign direct investment (FDI) for analyzing the determinants of cross-border investment relationships. We base our investigation on a newly established firm-level data set of German multinational firms and their affiliates in the Czech...

Seit 2012 werden im Rahmen eines grenzüberschreitenden Berufsausbildungsmodells tschechische Schülerinnen und Schüler der Berufsschule Domaézlice gemeinsam mit der Berufsschule im Landkreis Cham ausgebildet. Die Herausforderung liegt in der Verbindung der unterschiedlichen...

Durch den Angriffskrieg Russlands wurden mehrere Millionen Menschen zur Flucht aus der Ukraine gezwungen. Auch nach sind Deutschland sind rund 310.000 Geflüchtete bis zum 5. April 2022 eingereist. Für jene Personen, die nicht privat in Familien oder bei Bekannten untergebracht und versorgt...

Seit dem Beginn der Covid-19-Pandemie verzeichnen Betriebe vermehrt Schwierigkeiten beim Bezug von Vorleistungen oder Zwischenprodukten. Dabei ist in einigen Branchen ein anhaltender Mangel an wichtigen Vorprodukten zu beobachten. Zwar traten Lieferengpässe nicht erst mit der Pandemie auf,...

In this paper, we revisit questions about the onshore employment effects of firms that conduct foreign direct investment (FDI) in countries with substantially lower average wages. Our results derive from the use of rich administrative records on the universe of employees in German multinational...

This paper deals with the measurement of motives for foreign direct investment (FDI). Due to a lack of information, several indirect measures exist in order to classify multinational firms into the two main types of FDI. While vertical foreign direct investment (VFDI) refers to the international...

This paper pursues three aims. First, we provide a review of current theoretical advances which pertain to the relationship between trade, FDI and labor markets. We do so under the following (not mutually exclusive) headings: (1) slicing-up the value added chain and the turn to a task-based...