income in East Germany. The bias difference in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap. …We measure individual bias in labor market expectations in German survey data and find that workers on average … pessimistic than West Germans. We find a significantly negative relationship between the pessimistic bias in job separation …

We measure individual bias in labor market expectations in German survey data and find that workers on average … pessimistic than West Germans. We find a significantly negative relationship between the pessimistic bias in job separation … expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and …

und Nachnamen der Gesamtheit der Beschäftigungsmeldungen in Deutschland, identifizieren wir ca. 3,3 Millionen Paare von … Paar in Deutschland identifiziert und ca. 35 Prozent aller Paare bei denen beide Partner in sozialversicherungspflichtiger …