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Demography and unemployment in East Germany : how close are the ties?

Fuchs, Michaela; Weyh, Antje - 2014

We analyze the relation between population aging and the decline of unemployment in East Germany for the years from … 1996 to 2012. To this we scrutinize both a direct and an indirect effect of aging on unemployment. The direct effect …, however, point towards an indirect effect of aging on unemployment that works through the increasing competition for labor …

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Long-run processes of geographical concentration and dispersion : evidence from Germany

Dauth, Wolfgang; Fuchs, Michaela; Otto, Anne - 2015

This paper analyzes the evolution of geographical concentration in the West German manufacturing, service, and knowledge-intensive sectors over a time period of 30 years. Drawing on detailed plant data of 187 industries from 1980 to 2010, we observe substantial concentration that is highest in...

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Why do women earn more than men in some regions? : explaining regional differences in the gender pay gap in Germany

Fuchs, Michaela; Rossen, Anja; Weyh, Antje; … - 2019

This paper provides first-time evidence on the magnitude and determinants of regional differences in the gender pay gap (GPG) in Germany. Using a comprehensive data set of all full-time employees, we conduct Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions for Germany and its regions to explain the regional...

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