bring convergence, labor flows would respond, enhancing overall efficiency. Yet net emigration from East Germany has fallen …In 1997 GDP per capita in East Germany was 57% of that of West Germany, wage rates were 75% of western levels, and the … from high levels in 1989-1990 to close to zero. Using state-level data for all of Germany, available from 1991-1996, I am …

a month. A theory-driven two-factor model featuring the green factor explains much of the recent underperformance of …

I examine the determinants of inter-state migration of adults within western Germany, using the German Socio … short-distance migrants, as predicted by theory, and I show that return migrants are a mix of successes and failures …

A transformation of what had become a universal 40 hour standard work week in Germany began in 1985 with reductions …

West Germany's Employment Promotion Act of 1985 facilitated the use of fixed term contracts and increased the number of …

, Germany, Japan, and the U.K. All of the anomalies are consistently significant across these five countries, whose developed …

Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …