Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/31932 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
IAB-Discussion Paper No. 1/2007
Publisher: 
Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg
Abstract: 
Using the IAB Employment Sample (IABS) covering 1980-2001 we investigate what impact the fall of the Iron Curtain has had on the skill structure of employment and wages in the western German districts neighbouring the Czech Republic. The introduction of free trade in this region, which has one of the world's largest spatial wage differentials, can be seen as a natural experiment. We presume that changes in skill and wage structures are particularly apparent in the regions situated immediately on the open border. Distinguishing three skill categories we obtain unexpected results. Though we observe a general shift from low-skilled jobs towards skilled jobs and a convergence trend of border regions towards the national average, we do not find a special effect for the period after the opening of the border, neither concerning the skill structure nor the wage differentials.
Subjects: 
Grenzgebiet
Qualifikationsstruktur
Lohnhöhe
osteuropäischer Transformationsprozess - Auswirkungen
IAB-Beschäftigtenstichprobe
Bayern
Tschechische Republik
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
JEL: 
R23
J31
F16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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