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 …

, however, differs. Shortage of part-time work, service jobs and independent employment indicates that East Germany has failed …This study surveys the development of the East German labor market after the unification of Germany. We explain that in … active labor market policy, are only partly reported as unemployment. A review of the evidence on the effectiveness of labor …

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 …

migrants experience worse labor market outcomes than other migrant groups, but current and potential migrants hold …

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. …

the extent to which the experience of parental unemployment during childhood affects young people's far right … unemployed parents and right-wing extremism, with xenophobia in particular. This paper uses differences in unemployment levels … between East and West Germany, both before and after reunification, to investigate a causal relationship. Instrumental …