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The separation and reunification of Germany : rethinking a natural experiment interpretation of the enduring effects of communism
Becker, Sascha O.; Mergele, Lukas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
German separation in 1949 into a communist East and a capitalist West and their reunification in 1990 are commonly described as a natural experiment to study the enduring effects of communism. We show in three steps that the populations in East and West Germany were far from being randomly...
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The East German wage structure in the transition to a market economy
Steiner, Viktor - 1994
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Are the supporters of socialism the losers of capitalism? : conformism in East Germany and transition success
Deter, Max; Lange, Martin - 2022
The empirical literature is inconclusive about whether a country’s democratization has a long-lasting impact on former supporters or opponents of the bygone regime. With newly available individual-level data of former residents of the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR), we analyze how...
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Die Entwicklung der Lohnstruktur im ostdeutschen Transformationsprozeß
Steiner, Viktor; Puhani, Patrick A. - 1996
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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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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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The long-term costs of government surveillance : insights from stasi spying in East Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Löffler, Max; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2019 - This version: August 2019
We investigate the long-run effects of government surveillance on civic capital and economic performance, studying the case of the Stasi in East Germany. Exploiting regional variation in the number of spies and administrative features of the system, we combine a border discontinuity design with...
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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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