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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024

We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …

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Does segregation reduce socio-spatial mobility? : evidence from four European countries with different inequality and segregation contexts

Nieuwenhuis, Jaap; Tammaru, Tiit; Ham, Maarten van; … - 2017

The neighbourhoods in which people live reflects their social class and preferences, so studying socio-spatial mobility between neighbourhoods gives insight in the openness of spatial class structures of societies and in the ability of people to leave disadvantaged neighbourhoods. We study the...

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Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants in Germany

Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2010

immigrants across Germany. -- Enclave ; ethnic concentration ; language proficiency ; immigrants ; instrumental variable ; random …

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Ethnic networks and the employment of asylum seekers : evidence from Germany

Stips, Felix; Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2020

Using novel registry data on the population of asylum seekers in Germany for the period from 2010 to 2016, and quasi …

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Does democracy foster trust?

Rainer, Helmut (contributor); Siedler, Thomas (contributor) - 2006

trusting attitude than West Germans. This suggests a negative effect of communism in East Germany versus democracy in West … Germany on social and institutional trust. However, the experience of democracy by East Germans since reunification did not …

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Self-selection and the returns to geographic mobility : what can be learned from the German reunification "experiment"

Zaiceva, Anzelika (contributor) - 2006

This paper investigates the causal effect of geographic mobility on income. The returns to German East-West migration and commuting are estimated, exploiting the structure of centrally planned economies and a "natural experiment" of German reunification for identification. I find that the...

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Life satisfaction in Germany after reunification : additional insights on the pattern of convergence

Pfeifer, Christian; Petrunyk, Inna - 2015

The authors update previous findings on the total East-West gap in overall life satisfaction and its trend by using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1992 to 2013. Additionally, the East-West gap and its trend are separately analyzed for men and women as well as for...

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