effect on household saving, and a negative effect on fertility. In Germany, as in other countries where the hypothesis was … the number of future contributors. That is one of the reasons why, in Germany as elsewhere, pay-as-you-go pension systems …

-unification Germany. We find support for a spatial wage structure for German city-district wages, and hence indirectly for the relevance … of a new economic geography model for Germany. We also find that demand linkages in Germany are strongly localised and … that the old border still matters to the extent that economic interactions between western and eastern Germany are still …

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 …

. Evidence on employment in the retail sector from Germany, the Netherlands and the United States suggests that the regulatory …

explaining the interaction between private agents and fiscal authorities in the U.S., West Germany, Japan and the U.K. over the … is necessary to formally test the models' theoretical restrictions. In West Germany and Japan there is evidence that the …

The view that high unemployment in West Germany and other European countries is caused by a path dependence effect - or … the explanatory variables. Building on a cointeg ration model of the employment rate in West Germany, I find only weak …

A political miracle occurred when Germany was reunited, and at first glance an economic miracle has followed. Real … west Germany. Excessively high wages coupled with investment incentives that made the cost of capital negative rank high …