unemployment is often ignored. Both issues are particularly important in high unemployment regimes like East Germany where a wage … regional labour markets. However, distortions in extracting the regional unemployment effects arise in standard regional (i ….e. NUTS) classifications as they fail to adequately capture spatial processes. In addition, the nonstationarity of wages and …

formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … representative German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Density discontinuity tests and fixed-effects regressions suggest that married … couples in West (but not East) Germany diminished the wife’s labor market outcomes in order to avoid situations where she …

-employee data. Estimation results reveal a sizable positive average impact on wages in East Germany and no effect in West Germany …The very first minimum wage in Germany was introduced in 1997 for blue-collar workers in sub-sectors of the … the distribution suggesting spillover effects to wages where the minimum is not binding. -- Minimum wage ; construction …

variables estimates suggest strong and significant effects of parental unemployment on right-wing extremism. Various panel … the extent to which the experience of parental unemployment during childhood affects young people's far right … parents and right-wing extremism, with xenophobia in particular. This paper uses stark differences in unemployment levels …

In 1988, the wage distribution in East Germany was much more compressed than in West Germany or the U.S. Since the … collapse of Communism and unification with West Germany, however, the wage structure in eastern Germany has changed … Germany, individual variation in wage growth is similar to typical western levels. The wage structure of former East Germans …

Since monetary union with western Germany on 1 July 1990, eastern female monthly wages have risen by 10 percentage … points relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the … most important determinant of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than half of the …