In 1988, the wage distribution in East Germany was much more compressed than in West Germany or the U.S. Since the … collapse of Communism and unification with West Germany, however, the wage structure in eastern Germany has changed … Germany, individual variation in wage growth is similar to typical western levels. The wage structure of former East Germans …

Since monetary union with western Germany on 1 July 1990, eastern female monthly wages have risen by 10 percentage … points relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the … most important determinant of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than half of the …

Following monetary union with west Germany in June 1990, the median real monthly wage of prime age east German workers … rose by 83% in six years. I use the German Socio-Economic Panel data to investigate the determinants of this wage growth …

insight into the problem by examining the determinants of transitions between non-employment (or unemployment) and employment …, using the 1990-1996 survey years of the German Socio- Economic Panel. Individuals over fifty and women have much longer non-employment …Following monetary union with the west in June 1990, the employment rate for east German 18-54 year olds fell from 89 …