west Germany. Excessively high wages coupled with investment incentives that made the cost of capital negative rank high …A political miracle occurred when Germany was reunited, and at first glance an economic miracle has followed. Real …

Following monetary union with west Germany in June 1990, the median real monthly wage of prime age east German workers …

initial wages, low initial tenure, low attachment to the labor force, and those employed at large firms with low wage levels …

sensitivity of employment to the domestic price of imports varies significantly across these nine sectors, whereas industry wages … of unemployment and wages so generated and the actual, historical paths are attributed to the effects of import … in wages in two industries, among the nine studied …

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … did not change substantially in Germany, increased and remained at relatively high levels in the United States, and … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …

We examine financial literacy in Germany using data from the SAVE survey. We find that knowledge of basic financial … concepts is lacking among women, the less educated, and those living in East Germany. In particular, those with low education … and low income in East Germany have little financial literacy compared to their West German counterparts. Interestingly …

to East Germany in 1989 experience a persistent rise in their personal incomes after the fall of the Berlin Wall … within a given West German region invest in East Germany. As a result, West German regions which (for idiosyncratic reasons … capita in the early 1990s. A one standard deviation rise in the share of households with social ties to East Germany in 1989 …