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 …

post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the socialist regime significantly damaged this mechanism of an …

shows a common, quite similar, age-specific pattern of life satisfaction for both Britain and Germany that can be …

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 …

formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … couples in West (but not East) Germany diminished the wife's labor market outcomes in order to avoid situations where she … would earn more than him. However, the significance of the male breadwinner prescription seems to decline in West Germany …

Germany's occupational and sectoral change towards a knowledge-based economy calls for high returns to education …

In this article, we study state dependence in social assistance receipt in Germany using annual survey data from the … rates are much higher in Eastern Germany than in Western Germany, absolute levels of structural state dependence however are …