account. -- employment protection ; unemployment ; dual labor markets ; wage inequality …

income in East Germany. The bias difference in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap. …

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. …

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 …

implemented in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden. The paper seeks to show why two-tier reforms …

This paper assesses whether short-lived jobs (lasting one quarter or less and involuntarily ending in unemployment) are …

. This model yields a simple relationship between (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii) the … and allow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion and mismatch for the US is consistent with an unemployment …

share, and the unemployment rate, hence labour market institutions are an essential determinant of the distribution of …, second, that stronger unions and a more generous unemployment benefit tend to reduce income inequality. High capital …