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20 years of German unification : evidence on income convergence and heterogeneity

Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - 2009

We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based …, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West Germany over the fifteen years for which data are available. Using a … highest negative income gap. This probably reflects out-migration from East Germany by the young and highly skilled. On the …

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Product policy and the East-West productivity gap : evidence from German manufacturing firms

Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Voshage, Ramona; … - 2009

product policy. We analyse these questions with a unique data set provided by Statistics Germany that contains both product …

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Do regional price levels converge? : paneleconometric evidence based on German districts

Dreger, Christian (contributor); … - 2007

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Public pensions, changing employment patterns, and the impact of pension reforms across birth cohorts : a microsimulation analysis for Germany

Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2010

birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future …

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Employment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2010

minimum wage in East Germany was set much higher in relation to the wage distribution. There is heterogeneity hidden in the … negative employment effect for East Germany, its magnitude is substantially larger than previously estimated. -- Minimum wage …

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Religious heterogeneity and fiscal policy : evidence from German reunification

Freier, Ronny; Geys, Benny; Holm, Joshua - 2013

Theoretical work based on social identity theory and in-group favoritism predicts that increased population diversity (e.g., due to immigration) reduces support for redistributive public policies. In this article, we add to the empirical literature testing this prediction in three ways. First,...

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Regional social contexts and individual fertility decisions : a multilevel analysis of first and second birth in Western Germany

Hank, Karsten - 2002

western Germany during the 1980s and 1990s. It is argued that regional opportunity structures as well as local patterns of …

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The differential influence of women's residential district on their risk of entering motherhood and first marriage : a discrete time multilevel analysis of Western German panel dat...

Hank, Karsten - 2002

To begin with, we sketch a general multilevel model of regional social contexts and individual family formation behavior, where particular attention is paid to the determinants of the actor's situation. Then a set of bridge hypotheses is proposed, on which the empirical investigation of the...

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New firm formation by industry over space and time : a multi-level analysis

Fritsch, Michael; Falck, Oliver - 2003

formation: industry, location and change over time. The data is for West Germany and covers the 1983-97 period. Our analysis …

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Local and spatial cointegration in the wage curve : a spatial panel analysis for German regions

Kosfeld, Reinhold; Dreger, Christian - 2015

The wage curve introduced by Blanchflower and Oswald (1990, 1994) postulates a negative correlation between wages and unemployment. Empirical results focus on particular theoretical channels establishing the relationship. Panel models mostly draw on unionized bargaining or the efficiency wage...

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