A political miracle occurred when Germany was reunited, and at first glance an economic miracle has followed. Real … west Germany. Excessively high wages coupled with investment incentives that made the cost of capital negative rank high …

explaining the relative East Germany-West Germany performance during the post-World War II era. We argue that previous work was … prospects of catching up with West Germany during the post-reunification era. We show, first, that the rates of technical change … account for the fact that East Germany was not the socialist showcase for which it was frequently taken before German …

In 1988, the wage distribution in East Germany was much more compressed than in West Germany or the U.S. Since the … collapse of Communism and unification with West Germany, however, the wage structure in eastern Germany has changed … Germany, individual variation in wage growth is similar to typical western levels. The wage structure of former East Germans …

Italy and Germany have similar geographical differences in productivity - North more productive than South in Italy …; West more productive than East in Germany - but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages based on … nationwide contracts that allow for limited local wage adjustments, while Germany has moved toward a more flexible system that …

In this paper we first document inequality trends in wages, hours worked, earnings, consumption, and wealth for Germany … from the last twenty years. We generally find that inequality was relatively stable in West Germany until the German …