Easterlin, Richard A.; Zimmermann, Anke - Institute of Economic Policy Research (IEPR), … - 2006
Throughout Germany real income has trended upward since 1991, but life satisfaction has risen in the East, fallen in the West, and been fairly stable for Germany as a whole. By 1997 the initial excess of West over East Germany was cut by over one-half; since then, the differential has changed...