Arbeitspapier

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

The paper argues that economic integration causes problems for the labor market of high-wage countries due to cross-border labor mobility and the accompanying increase in labor supply. Empirical evidence is provided from an analysis of regional 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 resident workers due to cross-border labor mobility, this result is bad news for EU regions situated on the border with the Accession countries in Central and Eastern Europe.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 1179

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Economic Integration
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
Thema
economic integration
border regions
EU enlargement
German re-unification
differences in differences estimation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Büttner, Thiess
Rincke, Johannes
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2004

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Büttner, Thiess
  • Rincke, Johannes
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2004

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