of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite … that Germany would have been better off, had it immediately opened its labor market. Finally, the Great recession allows us …

We study the labor market outcomes of a deregulation reform in Germany that removed licensing requirements to become …

deregulation reform are relatively small due to the small size of the professional services in Germany.Policy reforms i) and ii … proposals for Germany: i) a reduction in the social security tax in the low-wage sector, ii) a publicly financed expansion of … full-day child care and full-day schooling, and iii) the further deregulation of the professional service sector. The …

regulations covering the temporary help service sector in Germany. We isolate the causal effect of this reform by combining a …

during the period 1992-2004. The main result is that regional convergence in unified Germany has been substantial. In the …

trusting attitude than West Germans. This suggests a negative effect of communism in East Germany versus democracy in West … Germany on social and institutional trust. However, the experience of democracy by East Germans since reunification did not …

otherwise be missed if a standard approach was adopted. We apply our proposed method to a case-study of Germany where we show …

This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an important determinant of the significant changes in Germany … Germany, we establish that nearly half of them experienced a reversal of fortune between 1926 and 2019, i.e., they moved from … the lower to the upper median of the income distribution or vice versa. Economic decline is concentrated in North Germany …