in this study are the construction of valid deflators for a comparison of real incomes during the transition from a …

increasing across cohorts. For West German men born 1926-28, the longevity gap between top and bottom decile amounts to about 4 …

birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future … levels for East German men and women will fall dramatically among younger birth cohorts, not only because of policy reforms …

this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We … argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on the true impact of alcohol on injury-induced mortality. We also …

evaluates the impact of this sudden and unexpected five-week alcohol prohibition on mortality due to unnatural causes. We find … the impact of alcohol on short-run mortality, and underscores the severe influence that alcohol has on society - even in …

-level dataset to study this redistribution in East Germany where the entire state-owned economy was either privatized or liquidated …

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 … in den Daten teilweise, indem wir die "Integrierten Erwerbsbiographien" - welche 1992 für Ostdeutschland beginnen - mit …

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 …

Unification fundamentally changed the terms of quantitative macroeconomic analysis for Germany. Two main areas … concerned are data availability for the eastern part of Germany and structural changes within the behavioural equations after … Germany. The challenge is to handle the structural break in the time series and the economic model by applying a SUR estimator …