Easterlin, Richard A.; Zimmermann, Anke C. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
Economic disruption in East Germany at the time of unification resulted in a noticeable drop in life satisfaction. By … the late 1990s East Germany's life satisfaction had recovered to about its 1990 level, and its shortfall relative to West … Germany was slightly less than that before unification. In West Germany life satisfaction was fairly constant before …