access shock due to reunification was accompanied by a labor supply shock due to migrants and commuters from eastern Germany … shock due to the increase in market access and a labor supply shock due to migrants and commuters from eastern Germany …

access shock due to reunification was accompanied by a labor supply shock due to migrants and commuters from eastern Germany … shock due to the increase in market access and a labor supply shock due to migrants and commuters from eastern Germany …

We study the impact of social ties on the migration of inventors from East to West Germany, using the fall of the Iron … DDRPatentdaten vor 1990, welche mit Sozialversicherungsdaten im wiedervereinigten Deutschland verknüpft werden konnten. Wir …

Eastern Germany's recovery from the "unification shock" has been characterized by deep structural change - with …

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 …

to East Germany in 1989 experience a persistent rise in their personal incomes after the fall of the Berlin Wall … within a given West German region invest in East Germany. As a result, West German regions which (for idiosyncratic reasons … capita in the early 1990s. A one standard deviation rise in the share of households with social ties to East Germany in 1989 …

We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …

We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …