Jahren vom DIW Berlin vorgenommenen Kaufkraftparitäten-Berechnungen für Ost- und Westdeutschland. Sie erweisen sich … weitgehend kompatibel mit den entsprechenden späteren Berechnungen des Bundesinstituts für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung (BBSR … Analyse der Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland einbezogen. Im Ergebnis führt dies bei den verfügbaren Haushaltseinkommen zu …

' income divide the German nation. We find that the neighbourhood income effect for West Germany is negative (which is in line … social interactions between neighbours take place. In contrast, the coefficients on neighbourhood income in East Germany are … there is a divide between East and West Germany, but also that neighbours may not be a relevant comparison group in …

it all", but women must still choose between career and family in Germany. We argue that interventions need to address …

question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of …

This paper presents and compares trends in income inequality in Switzerland and Germany from 2000 to 2009 using … harmonized data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Swiss Household Panel (SHP). Whereas in Germany inequality has … participation - but not economic growth, globalization, or sectoral change - are potential explanations. The decomposition of …

job increases the employment chances during the subsequent five years in (West and East) Germany and the UK. Moreover, the … years of the career. Advantages of taking up a temporary job are slightly stronger in West Germany compared to East Germany …

differences for different types of vocational training, minor differences between East and West Germany and males and females, and …

by comparing Germany and the US based on harmonized micro data. We find significant and robust differences between lower …