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The employment of mothers : recent developments and their determinants in East and West Germany
Hanel, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2010
. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences … time. -- employment ; mothers ; parental leave ; East Germany ; child care …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697044
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Growth and convergence in a two-region model of unified Germany
Funke, Michael; Strulik, Holge - 1999
The paper sets up a two-region endogenous growth model to discuss growth and regional convergence of unified Germany … consistent with the data on government spending in East and West Germany after unification the model suggests that East Germany … will reach eighty percent of West Germany's income per capita between 20 and 30 years after unification and that actual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781701
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Learning capitalism the hard way : evidence from German reunification
Triebs, Thomas P.; Tumlinson, Justin - 2016
We develop a model of firm learning in volatile markets with noisy signals and test its predictions using historical German data. Firms' forecasts improve with age. We exploit German Reunification as a natural experiment where firms in the East are treated with ignorance about the distribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580632
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The separation and reunification of Germany : rethinking a natural experiment interpretation of the enduring effects of communism
Becker, Sascha O.; Mergele, Lukas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
East and West Germany were far from being randomly selected treatment and control groups. First, the later border is … occupying forces affected East and West differently. Third, a selective fifth of the population fled from East to West Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012177137
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Tear down this wall : on the persistence of borders in trade
Nitsch, Volker; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2009
Why do borders still matter for economic activity? The reunification of Germany in 1990 provides a unique natural … to trade between East Germany and West Germany were eliminated completely within a very short period of time. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898827
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Tax morale after the reunification of Germany : results from a quasi-natural experiment
Feld, Lars P. (contributor); Torgler, Benno (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003495768
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The big sell : privatizing East Germany's economy
Mergele, Lukas; Hennicke, Moritz; Lubczyk, Moritz - 2020
-level dataset to study this redistribution in East Germany where the entire state-owned economy was either privatized or liquidated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287328
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Skill premiums and the supply of young workers in Germany
Glitz, Albrecht; Wissmann, Daniel - 2017
In this paper, we study the development and underlying drivers of skill premiums in Germany between 1980 and 2008. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688036
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How do migrants choose their destination country? : an analysis of institutional determinants
Geis, Wido; Übelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008
micro-data for France, Germany, the UK and the US, we study their decisions to migrate to one of the four countries using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003805994
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The fall in German unemployment : a flow analysis
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Launov, Andrey; Robin, Jean-Marc - 2020
In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work and labour market participation amongst prime-aged Germans. We show that unemployment fell because the Hartz reforms induced a large fraction of the long-term unemployed to deregister as jobseekers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012404545