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How does economic integration influence employment and wages in border regions? The case of the EU-enlargement 2004 and Germany's Eastern border
This paper considers the (short run) employment and wage effects of the 2004 EUenlargement on firms located close to Germany's Eastern border. We use a 50% sample of Germans plants and apply difference-in-differences-estimators combined with a matching approach. We evaluate changes in total employment, the employment shares of low-skilled and Eastern European workers and the wages for low-skilled, skilled and high-skilled workers in various sectors. Our results suggest negative (short-run) effects of the EU-enlargement on employment in construction and the business services sector, where we also find negative wage effects. Wages and employment in manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, hotels and restaurants and social and personal service activities seem to have been relatively less affected.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Working Paper Series in Economics ; No. 142
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Economic Integration
Industry Studies: Services: General
- Subject
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EU-enlargement
economic integration
employment
wages
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Braakmann, Nils
Vogel, Alexander
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Veröffentlichung
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Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
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Lüneburg
- (when)
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2009
- Handle
- Last update
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Braakmann, Nils
- Vogel, Alexander
- Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
Time of origin
- 2009