The paper analyzes effects of occupational and regional mobility on the matching rate using the monthly panel … regional mobility in West Germany but higher occupational mobility in East Germany. The results show that if occupations were …-15%. It is also shown that partial aggregation causes a downward bias in substitutability estimates. -- Matching function …

throughout the years 1992{2001. Wage dispersion has generally been rising. The increase was more pronounced in East Germany and … Germany, but changes in the characteristics captured better parts of the observed wage changes over time. …

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 …

Germany. Hypothesis upon the influence of potential determinants are derived from theoretical approaches explaining the growth … Germany. With an yearly average of 15.8% (11.8%), the growth rates of innovative firms in Western (Eastern) Germany are … Western Germany grow faster than firms in Eastern Germany. Furthermore, an unequal distribution of the average annual growth …

and Western Germany. Descriptive analyses have shown that most firms experience only small positive or negative employment … when separatingEastern and Western Germany as well as usingdifferen t definitions of fast growingfirms. Moreover, the …

East Germany which point to a substantial shift in industry structure. Minimum wages decreased both market entries and … some type of evasion strategy in eastern Germany, particularly since wages for skilled roofers declined towards the minimum …

Unternehmensgründungen in Deutschland leistet. Aber auch andere unternehmens- und unternehmerbezogene sowie unternehmensexterne Faktoren …

This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables …

Using a competing-risk framework of exiting unemployment to jobs in a local or a distant labor market area, this paper … investigates whether unemployed individuals in West Germany choose search strategies that favor migrating out of declining regions … indicate that unemployed in West Germany are responsive to local labor market conditions and are more likely to leave regions …