This paper indicates that East Germany's unemployment originates primarily in the labor market, caused by the fast wage …

This paper addresses the question of why prolonged regional unemployment differentials tend to persist even after their … proximate causes have been reversed (e.g., after wages in the highunemployment regions have fallen relative to those in the low-unemployment …-productivity "trap", through the attrition of skills and work habits. We develop and calibrate a model along these lines for East Germany …

This paper addresses the question of why prolonged regional unemployment differentials tend to persist even after their … proximate causes have been reversed (e.g., after wages in the highunemployment regions have fallen relative to those in the low-unemployment …-productivity "trap", through the attrition of skills and work habits. We develop and calibrate a model along these lines for East Germany …

declined over longer time spans in Eastern Germany since 1880 - except for the most recent period 1997-2006. In the Eastern … information on parents' schooling and employment status. Unemployment might have negative psychological effects, with impact on … unemployment was in fact the major driving force. …

markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …

markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …

western Germany) the size of an establishment. …

This paper studies the cause of the changes in male wage inequality in East Germany during its transition from a …

This paper studies the cause of the changes, or lack of, in wage inequality in East Germany during its transition from …

Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with groups of West German statistical twin workers, all taken from the Socio …. Wages of migrants to West Germany equal the ones of their West German statistical twins. We conclude that labor markets in … East and West Germany are still characterized by wage differences but that the degree of inequality in both regions …