We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based …, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West Germany over the fifteen years for which data are available. Using a … highest negative income gap. This probably reflects out-migration from East Germany by the young and highly skilled. On the …

We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based …, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West Germany over the fifteen years for which data are available. Using a … highest negative income gap. This probably reflects out-migration from East Germany by the young and highly skilled. On the …

We investigate to what extent convergence in production levels per worker has been achieved in Germany since …

particular, we follow a distributional approach to convergence based on kernel density estimation and implement a number of tests …

unemployment, new jobs creation and labor protection legislation); * innovation potential, including R&D, information and …

Many writers have claimed that R&D has two 'faces'. In addition to the conventional role of stimulating innovation, R … important in this catch up process as well as stimulating innovation directly. Trade, by contrast, plays a more modest role in …

In contrast to West-Germany, illicit drugs were virtually absent in the East-Germany until 1990. Yet, after the … collapse of the former GDR, East-Germany was expected to encounter a sharp increase in the prevalence of substance abuse. By … analyzing individual data, we find that East-Germany largely caught up with West-Germany?s ever-growing prevalence of illicit …

issue of conditional income and productivity convergence across labour market regions in unified Germany. …

econometric methods are used to investigate regional convergence in West Germany. The results indicate that spatial interaction is …