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Labour Market Effects of European Intergration in the Bavarian and Czech Border Regions
[phd thesis]
Abstract Due to globalisation, European countries are facing new challenges for their labour markets: Employees in Western Europe are exposed to strong pressures from low-wage countries, which for their part have had to cope with rapid economic changes. What consequences did the Fall of the Iron Curtain in 1... view more
Due to globalisation, European countries are facing new challenges for their labour markets: Employees in Western Europe are exposed to strong pressures from low-wage countries, which for their part have had to cope with rapid economic changes. What consequences did the Fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 and the subsequent integration process up to the early 2000s have on the labour market in the border regions between old and new EU member states? The author addresses this question for the border region between Bavaria and the Czech Republic. He analyses whether the short distance between eastern Bavaria and the Czech border region had an impact on the development of economic structures, qualification trends, and wage differentials in both regions, and to what extent differences can be observed in comparison to the development in regions more distant from the border.... view less
Welche Auswirkungen hatte der Fall des Eisernen Vorhangs und die ökonomische Integration der mittelosteuropäischen Staaten für den Arbeitsmarkt in den Grenzregionen zwischen den alten und den neuen EU-Mitgliedsstaaten? Der Autor geht dieser Frage am Beispiel der bayerisch-tschechischen Grenzregion n... view more
Welche Auswirkungen hatte der Fall des Eisernen Vorhangs und die ökonomische Integration der mittelosteuropäischen Staaten für den Arbeitsmarkt in den Grenzregionen zwischen den alten und den neuen EU-Mitgliedsstaaten? Der Autor geht dieser Frage am Beispiel der bayerisch-tschechischen Grenzregion nach. Er untersucht für beide Länder, ob die räumliche Nähe für die Entwicklung der Wirtschafts-, Qualifikations- und Lohnstrukturen in den grenznahen Kreisen eine Rolle spielt und inwieweit sich signifikante Unterschiede zur Entwicklung in den grenzfernen Regionen feststellen lassen.... view less
Keywords
Bavaria; Czech Republic; border region; European integration; economic integration; labor market trend; structure of qualification; effect on employment; labor force participation; wage difference; change of qualification; location factors; structural change; Eastern Europe; transformation; Federal Republic of Germany
Classification
Labor Market Research
European Politics
Free Keywords
osteuropäischer Transformationsprozess
Document language
English
Publication Year
2009
Publisher
W. Bertelsmann Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
165 p.
Series
IAB-Bibliothek (Dissertationen), 321
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3278/300682w
ISSN
1865-4096
ISBN
978-3-7639-4012-7
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed