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

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

minimum wage in East Germany was set much higher in relation to the wage distribution. There is heterogeneity hidden in the … negative employment effect for East Germany, its magnitude is substantially larger than previously estimated …

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 …