simultaneously explains participation, employment and wages. The model, estimated for East and West Germany on the basis of the …

simultaneously explains participation, employment and wages. The model, estimated for East and West Germany on the basis of the …

by a growing approval of maternal employment, especially in western Germany. However, differences in actual working hours …

Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) allows for taking into account two political regimes and … that in both parts of Germany women’s probability of having a first child is negatively correlated with both employment and …

Germany following German Unification. Using a unique large-scale German administrative data set, we measure individuals …

Germany following German Unification. Using a unique large-scale German administrative data set, we measure individuals …

We demonstrate that almost one half of the observed wage gap between East and West Germany reflects differences in …

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 …

This article shows how the impulses of the transformation process in eastern Germany have spread through the economy … persistently lower wages and higher unemployment rates in eastern compared with western Germany. …