A quarter-century after reunification, labor productivity in eastern Germany continues to lag systematically behind the …, capital intensity in eastern Germany, especially in industry, has overshot values in the West, casting doubt on the embodied …

Eastern Germany's recovery from the "unification shock" has been characterized by deep structural change - with …

between East and West Germany declined at a speed not far from empirical estimates of the neoclassical growth model, yet … from those found within West Germany, and net migration has ceased. On this human metric, German unification has been an …