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Eastern Germany's economic development revisited : path dependence and economic stagnation before and after reunification

Blum, Ulrich - In: Post-communist economies 25 (2013) 1, pp. 37-58

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One transition story does not fit them all : initial regional conditions and new business formation after communism

Fritsch, Michael; Greve, Maria; Wyrwich, Michael - In: Post-communist economies 34 (2022) 8, pp. 1001-1028

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Cohort effects and the returns to education in West Germany

Boockmann, Bernhard; Steiner, Viktor - 2000

Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born between 1925 and 1974. The main problem to be tackled in the specification is to separately identify cohort, experience, and possibly also age effects in the returns. For women,...

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Explaining the East German productivity gap: the role of human capital

Ragnitz, Joachim - 2007

The paper concentrates on the question whether the low level of productivity in East Germany can be explained by … human capital endowments; in fact, the effective stock on human capital in East Germany is lower than in West Germany when … younger cohorts. This impedes a fast convergence in productivity between East and West Germany. …

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