We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …

unbalanced panel over the transition period 1994 to 1998. We adopt a translog stochastic frontier model to estimate technical … efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results indicate that firms in eastern Germany are significantly less efficient … than firms in western Germany. The paper also examines some of the possible correlates of regional variations in firm …

We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage age and education, with the income of the teenager's family, with migration status, residence in East Germany, and … aggregate unemployment. Our evidence supports countercyclical teenage fertility. …

macroeconomic development in East Germany since 1991. -- increasing returns to scale ; capital mobility ; migration ; multiple …

macroeconomic development in East Germany since 1991. -- increasing returns to scale ; capital mobility ; migration ; multiple …

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 …

; public opinion poll ; PAYG pension system ; East Germany …

-time employment for women, including mothers. The West German system by contrast deterred women in general, and mothers in particular …, from full-time employment. After reunification, family-related policies largely converged in the two Germanies. Against … this background, we empirically investigate gender-role attitudes in reunified Germany. Our results show that East Germans …

proclamations of a classlesssociety, there were substantial differences in physical stature in East-Germany.Social differences in …

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 …