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 …

unemployment is often ignored. Both issues are particularly important in high unemployment regimes like East Germany where a wage … regional labour markets. However, distortions in extracting the regional unemployment effects arise in standard regional (i ….e. NUTS) classifications as they fail to adequately capture spatial processes. In addition, the nonstationarity of wages and …

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. …

formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … representative German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Density discontinuity tests and fixed-effects regressions suggest that married … couples in West (but not East) Germany diminished the wife’s labor market outcomes in order to avoid situations where she …

-employee data. Estimation results reveal a sizable positive average impact on wages in East Germany and no effect in West Germany …The very first minimum wage in Germany was introduced in 1997 for blue-collar workers in sub-sectors of the … the distribution suggesting spillover effects to wages where the minimum is not binding. -- Minimum wage ; construction …

variables estimates suggest strong and significant effects of parental unemployment on right-wing extremism. Various panel … the extent to which the experience of parental unemployment during childhood affects young people's far right … parents and right-wing extremism, with xenophobia in particular. This paper uses stark differences in unemployment levels …