We study the determinants of East-West migration within Germany during the period 1990-2006, using administrative data, the German Microcensus and the German Socio-Economic Panel. We find that in addition to income prospects and employment status, two well-known determinants of migration,...

This paper presents a spatial analysis of unemployment rates in Germany. The goal of this analysis is to explain the stubbornly low labor productivity and high unemployment rates in Eastern Germany. We build a model of commuting to distinguish between worker and job characteristics as the main...

Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden die langfristigen Trends in der Entwicklung der Ungleichheit in Deutschland analysiert. Er geht aber noch einen Schritt weiter. Wie anhand eines Beispiels gezeigt wird, kann man die Ungleichheit in Deutschland in drei Komponenten zerlegen: die Ungleichheit zwischen...

Using a structural life-cycle model and data on school visits from Safegraph and school closures from Burbio, we quantify the heterogeneous impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming from households with different parental...

We document contemporaneous differences in the aggregate labor supply of married couples across 17 European countries and the US. Based on a model of joint household decision making, we quantify the contribution of international differences in non-linear labor income taxes and consumption taxes...