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 …