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20 Years of German Unification : Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity

Brück, Tilman - 2012

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 …

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Would a Legal Minimum Wage Reduce Poverty? A Microsimulation Study for Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2008

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 …

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Reading between the Lines : Using Media to Improve German Inflation Forecasts

Beckers, Benjamin - 2017

In this paper, we examine the predictive ability of automatic and expert-rated media sentiment indicators for German inflation. We find that sentiment indicators are competitive in providing inflation forecasts against a large set of common macroeconomic and financial predictors. Sophisticated...

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Non-Take-Up of Means-Tested Social Benefits in Germany

Harnisch, Michelle - 2019

This paper presents non-take-up rates of benefits from the German Income Support for Job Seekers scheme, called Unemployment Benefit II (Arbeitslosengeld II). Eligibility to these benefits is simulated by applying a microsimulation model based on data from the Socio-economic Panel for the years...

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Gender Identity and Wives' Labor Market Outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016

Sprengholz, Maximilian - 2019

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 …

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Do Media Data Help to Predict German Industrial Production?

Kholodilin, Konstantin A. - 2014

provided by Media Tenor International, based on the sentiment analysis of all relevant media information in Germany from 2001 …

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Firm's Evaluation of Location Quality : Evidence from East Germany

Eickelpasch, Alexander Friedrich - 2015

Our study provides evidence for firms' evaluation of location quality. We use a 2004 survey of 6,000 East German firms that contained questions on the importance and assessment of 15 different location factors ranging from closeness to customers and suppliers, transport infrastructure, and...

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Building the Minimum Wage : Germany's First Sectoral Minimum Wage and its Impact on Wages in the Construction Industry

Rattenhuber, Pia - 2011

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 …

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Product Policy and the East-West Productivity Gap : Evidence from German Manufacturing Firms

Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Voshage, Ramona; … - 2009

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

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Google Econometrics and Unemployment Forecasting

Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2012

The current economic crisis requires fast information to predict economic behavior early, which is difficult at times of structural changes. This paper suggests an innovative new method of using data on internet activity for that purpose. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword...

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