. Wages of migrants to West Germany equal the ones of their West German statistical twins. We conclude that labor markets in … reunification. Our research is based on a comparison of three groups of workers defined as stayers, migrants and commuters to West … Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with groups of West German statistical twin workers, all taken from the Socio …

This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on …. Rising inequality is not the result of the recent rise in self-employment. In West Germany rising inequality occurred in the … the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for 1984 to 2004. Between 1984 and 1994 the wage distribution was fairly stable …