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Changing fortunes during economic transition : low-wage persistence before and after German unification
Gürtzgen, Nicole; Nolte, André - 2016
Germany following German Unification. Using a unique large-scale German administrative data set, we measure individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444777
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The unification bonus (malus) in postwall Eastern Germany
Beblo, Miriam; Collier, Irwin L.; Knaus, Thomas - 2001
This paper presents estimates of the unification bonus for East Germans over the period 1991 to 1998. The unification bonus is defined as the discounted value of the difference between a person's actual income and his or her counterfactual real income stream forecast for a hypothetical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446171
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Investment and employment adjustment after unification : some results from a macroeconometric disequilibrium model
Radowski, Daniel; Smolny, Werner; Winker, Peter - 1999
The macroeconomic development in West Germany in the aftermath of unification was characterized by a boom period in … 1990/1991, a deep recession in 1992/1993 and a slow recovery since then. In East Germany, in contrast, unification induced … unification are reported. The estimates are based on a disequilibrium model formerly developed for West Germany and extended in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443447
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Modeling German unification in a disequilibrium framework
Winker, Peter; Smolny, Werner; Radowski, Daniel - 1999
Unification fundamentally changed the terms of quantitative macroeconomic analysis for Germany. Two main areas … concerned are data availability for the eastern part of Germany and structural changes within the behavioural equations after … Germany. The challenge is to handle the structural break in the time series and the economic model by applying a SUR estimator …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443482
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Der Einfluß der Grenznähe auf die Standortwahl von Unternehmen : eine theoretische Analyse und empirische Befunde für Ostdeutschland
Engel, Dirk - 1999
Die EU-Osterweiterung ermöglicht eine stärkere Arbeitsteilung zwischen den relativ kapitalreichen Staaten der EU und den relativ arbeitsreichen Zutrittsländern Mittel- und Osteuropas, von der insbesondere die ostdeutschen Kreise in Nähe der Grenze profitieren können. Diese Studie widmet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442610
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Pension funds’ performance in strongly regulated industries in Central Europe : evidence from Poland and Hungary
Bohl, Martin T.; Lischewski, Judith; Voronkova, Svitlana - 2010
This paper presents an analysis of pension funds' performance in Poland and Hungary, two Central European countries … Analyse der Performance von Pensionsfonds in Polen und Ungarn, zwei zentraleuropäischen Ländern deren private Pensionsfonds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008665401
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Size, value and liquidity : do they really matter on an emerging stock market?
Lischewski, Judith; Voronkova, Svitlana - 2010
The paper extends the evidence on the factors relevant for pricing stocks in emerging markets. While previous literature focused on Latin American and Asian developing markets, Central and Eastern European markets remain under-researched. By focusing on the Polish stock market, we aim to fill in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008660508
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Labour reallocation during transition : the case of Poland
Bell, Una-Louise - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001651145
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All quiet on the wage front? : gender, public-private sector issues, and rigidities in the Polish wage structure
Puhani, Patrick A. - 1997
We analyse the Polish wage and unemployment structure between 1992 and 1995 on the basis of the Polish Labour Force Survey. It is shown that within this period wage inequality has stabilised. Surprisingly, wage inequality is lower in the private than in the public sector. Our test results show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440599
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Advantage through training? : a microeconometric evaluation of the employment effects of active labour market programmes in Poland
Puhani, Patrick A. - 1998
in Poland. The analysis is based on retrospective monthly calendar information on the labour force state and active …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441639