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

results of labour markets in eastern and western Germany have become quite similar in some respects but still differ markedly …

This study surveys the development of the East German labor market after the unification of Germany. We explain that in …, however, differs. Shortage of part-time work, service jobs and independent employment indicates that East Germany has failed …

unemployment is often ignored. Both issues are particularly important in high unemployment regimes like East Germany where a wage …. The analysis gives evidence on a locally but not a spatially cointegrated wage curve for East Germany …

East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures … or redistributive preferences. Nonetheless, individuals from East Germany tend to be more supportive of state …

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

. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences …

second exploits a quasi-experiment in East Germany created by a mistaken technology choice of the state …

markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …

We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based …, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West Germany over the fifteen years for which data are available. Using a … highest negative income gap. This probably reflects out-migration from East Germany by the young and highly skilled. On the …