caa a22 4500 44585927X CHVBK 20180317145437.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10290-010-0084-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10290-010-0084-4 How does economic integration influence employment and wages in border regions? The case of the EU enlargement 2004 and Germany's eastern border [Elektronische Daten] [Nils Braakmann, Alexander Vogel] This paper considers the (short-run) employment and wage effects of the 2004 EU enlargement 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 East European workers and the wages for low-skilled, skilled and high-skilled workers in various sectors. Our results suggest basically no short-run employment effects of the EU enlargement except for firms active in wholesale and retail trade, hotels and restaurants. We also find some evidence for a stronger employment of East European workers in almost all border firms, although the effects are quantitatively small. Negative wage effects are only found for skilled workers in consulting, research and related activities. Kiel Institute, 2010 EU enlargement nationallicence Economic integration nationallicence Employment nationallicence Wages nationallicence Braakmann Nils Business School-Economics, Newcastle University, Ridley Building, Claremont Road, NE1 7RU, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK aut Vogel Alexander Institute of Economics, Leuphana University Lüneburg, P. O. Box 2440, 21314, Lüneburg, Germany aut Review of World Economics Springer-Verlag 147/2(2011-06-01), 303-323 1610-2878 147:2<303 2011 147 10290 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10290-010-0084-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10290-010-0084-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Braakmann Nils Business School-Economics, Newcastle University, Ridley Building, Claremont Road, NE1 7RU, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Vogel Alexander Institute of Economics, Leuphana University Lüneburg, P. O. Box 2440, 21314, Lüneburg, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Review of World Economics Springer-Verlag 147/2(2011-06-01), 303-323 1610-2878 147:2<303 2011 147 10290 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer