This paper assesses whether the economy of East Germany is catching up with the West German region in terms of welfare … studies of convergence between regions of reunified Germany, our approach is purely based upon the time series dimension and … is thus directly focused on the catching up process in East Germany as a region. Our testing setup includes standard ADF …

firms in West Germany. The analysis is conducted at the firm level by use of a unique database constructed by field work … gap ; Central East Europe ; East Germany ; firm-level analysis …

statistics it can be seen that peripheral regions in East Germany face the strongest migration deficit with respect to young … women, whereas agglomerations in West Germany but also in the East benefit from an intense migration surplus within this …

Since the fall of the iron curtain in 1989, the migration deficit of the Eastern part of Germany has accumulated to 1 …Seit dem Fall des Eisernen Vorhanges im Jahr 1989 ist das Binnenmigrationsdefizit des östlichen Teils von Deutschland …

a quasi-natural experiment on county towns in East Germany. Since 1990, cities in East Germany have demonstrated …

microeconomic policies to the macroeconomic ties and side conditions for both parts of the country. Evidence from Germany suggests … the tying of neighboring countries into the convergence process. We finally provide, 62 years after Germany’s division and … ; Germany ; Korea …

a quasi-natural experiment on county towns in East Germany. Since 1990, cities in East Germany have demonstrated …

We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based …, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West Germany over the fifteen years for which data are available. Using a … highest negative income gap. This probably reflects out-migration from East Germany by the young and highly skilled. On the …

an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal … and had no negative employment effects. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing …