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Public pensions, changing employment patterns, and the impact of pension reforms across birth cohorts : a microsimulation analysis for Germany
Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2010
We analyze the impact of changing employment patterns and pension reforms on the future level of public pensions across birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and process-produced...
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Finance, economic development and the transition : the East German case
Carlin, Wendy; Richthofen, Peter - 1995
-Kredite-Problem" in Ostdeutschland verhinderten. Die Verdienste der Banken als große Anteilseigner in privatisierten Unternehmen sind in … Unternehmen in Ostdeutschland sehr gering ist und es wird versucht, die Gründe für diese Entwicklung darzulegen. In Ostdeutschland … Ostdeutschland kontrastiert. Dabei wird besonderes Augenmerk auf das Ausmaß des Wettbewerbs im Geschäftsbankensektor gelegt sowie auf …
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Extent and evolution of the productivity gap in Eastern Germany
Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2003
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The big sell : privatizing East Germany's economy
Hennicke, Moritz; Lubczyk, Moritz; Mergele, Lukas - 2020 - This version: September 11, 2020
The end of communism in the 1990s probably is the most fundamental restructuring of institutions witnessed in recent history. At its core was the large-scale redistribution of previously state-owned companies. We construct a unique firm-level dataset to study this redistribution in East Germany...
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The 2011 break in the part-time indicator and the evolution of wage inequality in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Seidlitz, Arnim - 2019
German social security records involve an indicator for part-time or full-time work. In 2011, the reporting procedure was changed suggesting that a fraction of worker recorded to be working full-time before the change were in fact part-time workers. This study develops a correction based on...
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Estimating regional wealth in Germany : how different are East and West really?
Kreutzmann, Ann-Kristin; Marek, Philipp; Salvati, Nicola; … - 2019
More than 25 years after German reunification, key economic indicators for households living in eastern German regions are still below the western German levels. This particularly holds for private net wealth, which reaches only about 40% of the western German level. However, a more granular...
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A proposed data set for analyzing the labor market trajectories of East Germans around reunification
Liepmann, Hannah; Müller, Dana - 2018
in den Daten teilweise, indem wir die "Integrierten Erwerbsbiographien" - welche 1992 für Ostdeutschland beginnen - mit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011930765
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Die Schulinfrastruktur in Ostdeutschland : ein multimedialer Zugang zur Analyse der Veränderungen von Schulstandorten
Helbig, Marcel; Konrad, Markus; Nikolai, Rita - 2018
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Let's go west! : do East Germans commute for wages, jobs or skills?
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Staat, Matthias; Vögele, Stefan - 1993
Using data from the longitudinal Labor Market Monitor for the New German States we provide a portrait of East-West commuters in the first year after unification and evaluate various hypotheses to explain the phenomenon. Commuters may be driven by the search for higher wages in the west or by...
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A comparative analysis of East and West German labor markets before and after unification
Krueger, Alan B.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 1992
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,...
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