We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …

We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …

differences for different types of vocational training, minor differences between East and West Germany and males and females, and …

differences for different types of vocational training, minor differences between East and West Germany and males and females, and …

differences for different types of vocational training, minor differences between East and West Germany and males and females, and …

. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences …

similarity. We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after unification (1990-1999). We … compare their wage assimilation to that of international immigrants to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis … faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany. However, these disadvantages were smaller than those of …

markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …

. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences … West German low employment patterns. -- employment ; mothers ; parental leave ; East Germany ; child care …

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 …