The impact of European integration on wage differentials in the Bavarian-Czech border region

نویسنده

  • Michael Moritz
چکیده

In the process of European integration labour markets are assumed to be affected disproportionately in regions bordering on new EU member countries. With respect to wage differentials, compared to interior regions, low-skilled workers there are according to the Feenstra-Hanson model predicted to suffer notably from increasing trade and the relocation of production activities to low-wage countries, while high-skilled workers should benefit from the increasing market potential. Using data from the IAB employment subsample (IABS) and the employment register (BeH) I shed light on the development of the wages for workers in eastern Bavaria compared to other western German districts. Conducting regressions separately for every year and a fixed-effects approach I come to surprising results: while in the early years after the fall of the Iron Curtain a catching-up process set in for employees in eastern Bavaria, the trend reverses after 1995 and the wage gap deepens again. Zusammenfassung: Die Arbeitsmärkte in Grenzregionen zu den mittelosteuropäischen EUMitgliedern sind durch die wirtschaftliche Integration Europas besonders betroffen. Durch die geographische Nähe sollten sich dort die relativen Änderungen in der Arbeitsnachfrage überdurchschnittlich auswirken. Dem Feenstra-Hanson-Modell zufolge verlieren geringqualifizierte Arbeitnehmer im Grenzland überproportional, während Hochqualifizierte die Gewinner der Handelsliberalisierung sind. Auf Basis der Daten der IAB-Beschäftigtenstichprobe und der Beschäftigten-Historik schätze ich die Lohndifferentiale zwischen Arbeitnehmern in der Grenzregion Ostbayern und dem restlichen westdeutschen Bundesgebiet. Die Ergebnisse überraschen: während es Anfang der 1990er Jahre zu einem Aufholprozess in Ostbayern kommt, dreht sich der Trend ab 1995 und der Lohnabstand wächst wieder.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv

دوره 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009