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 …

old are leaving East Germany, and that the emigration has accelerated in recent years. I document that low wages, high … unemployment and increasing reliance on social security persist across wide regions of East Germany together with these migration … networking rate, high average labor productivity, low unemployment and no emigration ("West Germany'') and one with a low …

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 …

; West more productive than East in Germany - but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages based on …Italy and Germany have similar geographical differences in productivity - North more productive than South in Italy … nationwide contracts that allow for limited local wage adjustments, while Germany has moved toward a more flexible system that …

In this paper we first document inequality trends in wages, hours worked, earnings, consumption, and wealth for Germany … from the last twenty years. We generally find that inequality was relatively stable in West Germany until the German … unification (which happened politically in 1990 and in our data in 1991), and then trended upwards for wages and market incomes …

quantify the aggregate and distributional effects of spatial frictions that hinder worker mobility across regions in Germany … East and West Germany, especially due to the limited ability of workers to obtain job offers from more distant regions …. Despite the large real wage gap between East and West of Germany, removing the spatial frictions leads, in equilibrium, to …