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Factor Price Distortions and Public Subsidies in East Germany

Sinn, Hans-Werner - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

Economic development in East Germany is not uniform. The building and construction industry is booming but manufacturing industry is stagnating. The paper argues that severe distortions in relative factor prices are the cause of the dichotomous development. These distortions result from...

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An Exercise in Futility: East German Economic Growth and Decline, 1945-89

Ritschl, Albrecht - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper assembles and reviews data on growth performance for East Germany. Conclusions are only tentative, as data reliability is still poor. Examining factor growth and total factor productivity performance, the paper arrives at three main conclusions. First, large-scale dismantling of...

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Privatization and Deindustrialization in East Germany

Carlin, Wendy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

The transition in East Germany has been characterized by an extremely rapid privatization of state-owned enterprises and by an equally rapid process of deindustrialization. The great majority of East German SOEs have been privatized and are now genuine capitalist firms with an owner with the...

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Revenue-sharing Subsidies as Employment Policy: Reducing the Cost of Stimulating East German Employment

Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

This paper provides a brief overview of the East German employment problem and presents a simple model in which to evaluate two rival policy proposals: wage subsidies and revenue-sharing subsidies. Revenue-sharing subsidies have received little, if any, attention in the ongoing public debate on...

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East Germany: The Economics of Kinship

von Hagen, Jürgen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

Assessments of the East German transition commonly focus narrowly on the size of financial transfers from the West to the East. Of more relevance to other cases of transformation is the fact that East Germany was immediately brought into the trading and financial system of the world economy and...

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A Tear in the Iron Curtain: The Impact of Western Television on Consumption Behavior

Bursztyn, Leonardo; Cantoni, Davide - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper examines the impact of exposure to foreign media on the economic behavior of agents in a totalitarian regime. We study private consumption choices focusing on former East Germany, where differential access to Western television was determined by geographic features. Using data...

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Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India

Jayachandran, Seema; Kuziemko, Ilyana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the …

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Do Highly Educated Women Choose Smaller Families?

Hazan, Moshe; Zoabi, Hosny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Conventional wisdom suggests that in developed countries income and fertility are negatively correlated. We present new … evidence that between 2001 and 2009 the cross-sectional relationship between fertility and women's education in the U.S. is U … explaining the positive correlation between fertility and female labor supply along the educational gradient. In our model …

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More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe

Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …

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The Career Costs of Children

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Stevens, Katrien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occupational choice, and labor supply using detailed survey and …-female wage gap as it evolves from labor market entry onward and the effect of pro-fertility policies. We show that a substantial … portion of the gender wage gap is explainable by realized and expected fertility and that the long-run effect of policies …

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