Blien, Uwe; Phan thi Hong Van; Kaufmann, Klara; Kaimer, … - 2010
20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall there is still a strong division between the economies and labour markets of … eastern and western Germany. In the last few years, however, unemployment has been reduced especially in the East, even in … the property of path dependency like the New Economic Geography. In the paper the development of unemployment is analysed …