their jobs, had changed their occupations and industries, and had moved to West Germany. We partially close the gap in the … data by linking the "Integrated Employment Biographies" - that start in 1992 for East Germany - with the GDR's "Data Fund …

This study investigates firm survival and employment growth of start-ups by unemployed people in East and West Germany … 1995 and could be observed at least one year after their foundation in 4 regions of East and 11 regions of West Germany. In …

We analyze the evolution of the wage structure in East Germany over the past two decades and compare it to West Germany …. Both regions experienced a rise in wage inequality between 1995 and 2009 with wage dispersion in East Germany exceeding … West Germany, esp. at the top. We also show that wage inequality is no longer rising in Germany and has even been declining …