(Raumordnungsregionen) in Germany based on the second wave of the Panel on Household Finances (PHF) conducted by the Deutsche Bundesbank in …. Although the paper is particularly focused on Germany, the approach proposed is applicable to surveys with a similar data …

case of the Stasi in East Germany. Exploiting regional variation in the number of spies and administrative features of the … institutional trust in post-reunification Germany. We also find substantial and long-lasting economic effects of Stasi surveillance …

This paper uses micro data to analyze the wage structures in East Germany and West Germany before and after unification …. In 1988, the wage distribution in East Germany was much more compressed than in West Germany or in the U.S. Since the … collapse of Communism and unification with West Germany, however, the wage structure in eastern Germany has changed …

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 …

activities in small and medium sized enterprises in Germany. (4) Our data base includes R&D performers as well as non …

Rolle. Nach der Übernahme des westdeutschen Tarifsystems werden auch in Ostdeutschland die Arbeitseinkommen durch …

East and West Germany were far from being randomly selected treatment and control groups. First, the later border is … occupying forces affected East and West differently. Third, a selective fifth of the population fled from East to West Germany …