puzzle. The analysis is based on a large, representative panel data set for Germany, which provides information on asset …

Finance School. The analysis proposed in this article considers corporate and capital markets reforms in Germany between 1950 …

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 …

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 …

The very first minimum wage in Germany was introduced in 1997 for blue-collar workers in sub-sectors of the …-employee data. Estimation results reveal a sizable positive average impact on wages in East Germany and no effect in West Germany …

product policy. We analyse these questions with a unique data set provided by Statistics Germany that contains both product …

place in Germany, towards a more Anglo-American system in which a large proportion of transfers are paid to the working poor …