formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … couples in West (but not East) Germany diminished the wife's labor market outcomes in order to avoid situations where she … would earn more than him. However, the significance of the male breadwinner prescription seems to decline in West Germany …

Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with groups of West German statistical twin workers, all taken from the Socio …. Wages of migrants to West Germany equal the ones of their West German statistical twins. We conclude that labor markets in … East and West Germany are still characterized by wage differences but that the degree of inequality in both regions …

system, improved their situation. With newly available panel data on East Germany's socialist past, the German Democratic …

In Germany, there is an ongoing debate about how to increase the efficiency of the social security system and … especially its financing. The aim of this paper is to simulate different financing systems for Germany. The introduction of a …

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 …

second exploits a quasi-experiment in East Germany created by a mistaken technology choice of the state …

Before the 90s, men's employment careers in East and West Germany were quite similar, despite their widely differing … West. After 1989 the GDR was incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany and almost all East German institutions were … market has converged completely with that of West Germany, following the same pattern of flexibilization and de …

Germany's occupational and sectoral change towards a knowledge-based economy calls for high returns to education …

We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel … teenage age and education, with the income of the teenager's family, with migration status, residence in East Germany, and …

This paper exploits data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to re-examine the gender wage gap in Germany on …, especially in East Germany. Women appear penalized twice, with both lower mean wages and greater wage inequality. A hypothetical …