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The takeover and selection effects of foreign ownership in Germany : an analysis using linked worker-firm data

Andrews, Martyn J.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2007

We use a linked employer-employee data set from Germany to estimate the wage effect of foreign-affiliates in East and West Germany. In addition, the wage effects of the large number of West German affiliates which are located in East Germany are also considered. The implemented techniques allow...

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Employment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2010

In this paper employment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in the German construction sector are estimated from a single cross-sectional wage distribution using parametric and semi-parametric models. Parametric functional form assumptions seem too restrictive and lead to implausible results. We...

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Establishment survival in East and West Germany : a comparative analysis

Fackler, Daniel - 2014

Verweildaueranalyse, ob sich die Überlebenschancen neu gegründeter Betriebe zwischen West- und Ostdeutschland unterscheiden und ob sie … sich im Zeitablauf angenähert haben. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Betriebe in Ostdeutschland von 1994 bis 1997 relativ gute … Schließungswahrscheinlichkeit in Ostdeutschland stark an, in Westdeutschland jedoch nicht, was vermutlich auf eine Änderung der Subventionspolitik …

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United, yet apart? : a note on persistent labour market differences between Western and Eastern Germany

Schnabel, Claus - 2015

der deutschen Einheit sich die Merkmale und Ergebnisse der Arbeitsmärkte in West- und Ostdeutschland in mancher Hinsicht …

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Economic relations between women and their partners: an East-West-German comparison after reunification

Trappe, Heike (contributor); … - 2005

Women's lives and opportunities in the economically advanced industrialized countries have changed dramatically during the last decades of the 20th century. One of the important implications of women's increased labor force participation and intensity, their improved occupational qualifications...

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East Germany's wage gap : a non-parametric decomposition based on establishment characteristics

Görzig, Bernd (contributor); Gornig, Martin (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

East German wages have been below the West German wage level since unification. Moreover, the East-West wage gap implied by the contractual wages specified in collective wage agreements is drifting ever further apart from the wage gap in terms of effective wages. This paper looks at the role of...

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The social logic of bounded partisanship in Germany : a comparison of veteran citizens (West Germans), new citizens (East Germans), and Immigrants

Zuckerman, Alan S. (contributor); Kroh, Martin (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Drawing on data from the twenty year long German Socioeconomic Panel Study, we show that partisanship is bounded. Almost every West German, East German, and immigrant never supports one or both of the major parties and most people vary support for their party by claiming no partisan preference....

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Gender identity and wives' labor market outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016

Sprengholz, Maximilian; Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2019

We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped different gender identity prescriptions of family...

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