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Language is another huge barrier to trade, especially in labor markets. In an alternate, culture-less dimension this problem is solvable by having high skilled
by jayruy 16y ago
Language is another huge barrier to trade, especially in labor markets. In an alternate, culture-less dimension this problem is solvable by having high skilled workers move to Germany and low skilled workers move to Greece.
- jacquesm 16y agoThe labor markets are as fluid as I've seen them since I was born here, there are lots of Polish, Romanian and Czech workers in more western countries, but comparatively few people from western countries moving to the east. I'm more concerned with 'border regions' between countries anyway, and for instance, between the Netherlands and Belgium and the Netherlands and Germany there is a lot of cross-border commuting going on, but relatively little cross border trade between companies in the 5-20 employees range. Language is not as much of a problem here because there are two things helping, the Belgians and the Dutch in the border region speak the same language, and the Germans and the Dutch in their border region have a common dialect (you can speak that all the way from Aachen to Denmark and have a reasonable expectation of being understood).