unionization has become more and more similar in eastern and western Germany in the period 1992 to 2000. The originally high level … of union density in eastern Germany has dropped below that of western Germany, and union membership has been falling … individuals? probability of union membership have converged over time between western and eastern Germany. After an assimilation …

while their risk of becoming unemployed was lower. In particular in eastern Germany, joining firms that were older than six …

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 …

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 …

roofers to remain employed in the sector in eastern Germany deteriorated along the entire wage distribution. Such employment …

of uncertainty measures based on GSOEP data from Eastern (and for comparison purposes also Western) Germany for the years … Eastern Germany during its transition than in Western Germany and had a highly nonlinear effect on the probability of a birth … uncertainty in East Germany in the transition could have contributed significantly to the sharp fall and unusually low level of …

life than non-volunteers. Causality is addressed taking advantage of a natural experiment: the collapse of East Germany and …

the effect of age at school entry on educational attainment for West and East Germany. Empirical results from linear …

explaining mortality crises and their relevance for the case of East Germany. Based on individual-level panel data the …