Disaggregated data from 30 two-digit manufacturing industries in the east and west parts of unified Germany are used to estimate employment for three skill categories of blue collar workers. Employment elasticities are uniformly higher in the east, and for unskilled labor. The former result...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the East German economy at the firm level using an unbalanced panel over the transition period 1994 to 1998. We adopt a translog stochastic frontier model to estimate technical efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results...

Die Bilanz von drei Jahren intensiver Förderpolitik in den neuen Bundesländern fällt gemischt aus. Ein dynamischer Entwicklungsprozeß ist bisher nur in Teilen der ostdeutschen Wirtschaft in Gang gekommen, insbesondere angeregt durch die staatlichen Infrastrukturprogramme im Bausektor und den...

The objective of this paper is to address the question of convergence across German districts in the first decade after German unification by drawing out and emphasising some stylised facts of regional per capita income dynamics. We achieve this by employing non-parametric techniques which focus...