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

While monthly wage inequality in Germany continued to increase strongly until 2010, it recently returned to the level …

its in-migrants. A higher employment inequality in Eastern as compared to Western Germany may, thus, be the missing link …

young and smaller cohorts has affected the declining unemployment rate in East Germany. This paper tackles the question of … the ties between demography and unemployment in East Germany and to this end draws on the concepts of the cohort crowding … provide evidence that the declining unemployment rate in East Germany is indeed affected by aging. Thus, a reversed cohort …

eastern and western Germany. In the last few years, however, unemployment has been reduced especially in the East, even in … times of economic crisis. Within eastern Germany a strong variation of labour market situations is visible, which has been … the property of path dependency like the New Economic Geography. In the paper the development of unemployment is analysed …

capital. The paper is reporting on a quasi natural experiment on East German county towns. Since 1990, cities in East Germany … estimation results show a statistically significant and economically relevant positive effect of holding a county capital status …

Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a search-matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the willingness to … pay for regional amenities and the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local … unemployment ratio decreases in response to an increase in the amenity level if the amenity is marginally more beneficial to …