use the separation of Germany into the communist GDR and the democratic FRG and its reunification in 1990 as a natural … experiment. Relying on household data that are representative for Germany, our empirical results strongly indicate that … conspicuous consumption is relatively more important in East Germany. Importantly, a significant gap in conspicuous consumption …

Why do borders still matter for economic activity? The reunification of Germany in 1990 provides a unique natural … to trade between East Germany and West Germany were eliminated completely within a very short period of time. The …

recipients to stay unemployed. Empirical evidence about the effects of UI sanctions in Germany is sparse. Using administrative … data we investigate the effects of sanctions on the reemployment probability in West Germany for individuals who entered UI …

differences for different types of vocational training, minor differences between East and West Germany and males and females, and …

question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of …

. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences …

this background, we empirically investigate gender-role attitudes in reunified Germany. Our results show that East Germans …