and support from the West. We argue that East Germany is in trouble precisely because of the support it has received. This …

life cycle structure in East and West German wages for fulltime employed men in the private sector. The patterns in the …

manufacturing. Earnings losses are larger for individuals with low initial wages, low initial tenure, and low attachment to the …

We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics …. Although real wages increased seven-fold during the period, growth was uneven across ownership types, industries and regions …. Since the late 1990s, the wages of state-owned enterprises have increased rapidly and wage disparities between skill …

proposals for Germany: i) a reduction in the social security tax in the low-wage sector, ii) a publicly financed expansion of … three reforms have positive short-run and long-run effects on employment, wages, and output. The quantitative effects of the … deregulation reform are relatively small due to the small size of the professional services in Germany.Policy reforms i) and ii …

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 …