In East Germany a profound demographic change has been taking place that manifests itself in the shrinkage and the aging of the population. One major cause is the drop in the East German fertility rates by about half directly after the reunification of Germany in 1990. In no other countries of...

Against the background of bad labor market conditions with high unemployment, poor job prospects, and low wages, East Germany used to experience long-standing high net migration outflows. During the last years, however, the situation on the East German labor market changed fundamentally, and...

Hinter den Nettobeschäftigungsverlusten in den neuen Bundesländern verbergen sich ausgeprägte Bruttoströme von Beschäftigungsgewinnen und -verlusten. Die betriebliche Beschäftigungsdynamik, die mit dem Konzept des Job-Turnover analysiert werden kann und Anfang der neunziger Jahre in...

Auf dem ostdeutschen Arbeitsmarkt fand Mitte der 2000er-Jahre eine Kehrtwende statt: Nach jahrelang sinkender Beschäftigung und hoher Arbeitslosigkeit stieg die Zahl der Beschäftigten in den letzten Jahren an, und die Zahl der Arbeitslosen ging stark zurück. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden...

In East Germany a profound demographic change has been taking place that manifests itself in the shrinkage and the aging of the population. One major cause is the drop in the East German fertility rates by about half directly after the reunification of Germany in 1990. In no other countries of...

We analyze the relation between population aging and the decline of unemployment in East Germany for the years from 1996 to 2012. To this we scrutinize both a direct and an indirect effect of aging on unemployment. The direct effect includes a decomposition of the East German unemployment rate...

Against the background of bad labor market conditions with high unemployment, poor job prospects, and low wages, East Germany used to experience long-standing high net migration outflows. During the last years, however, the situation on the East German labor market changed fundamentally, and...

In East Germany a profound demographic change has been taking place that manifests itself in the shrinkage and the aging of the population. One major cause is the drop in the East German fertility rates by about half directly after the reunification of Germany in 1990. In no other countries of...