Search Results - subject:"West Germany"

Does society influence the gender gap in risk attitudes? : evidence from East and West Germany

Chadi, Cornelia; Jirjahn, Uwe - In: Journal of behavioral and experimental economics 113 (2024), pp. 1-11

Previous international research suggests that women are on average more risk averse than men. This gives rise to the question of whether the gender gap in risk attitudes is shaped by the social environment. We address this question by examining risk attitudes among East and West Germans. Even...

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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - In: Labour : review of labour economics and industrial relations 38 (2024) 4, pp. 475-510

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Workplace connections and labor migration : the role of information in shaping expectations

Hansch, Michelle; Nimczik, Jan Sebastian; Spitz-Oener, … - 2024

typically meant relocating to West Germany, which most were reluctant to do. We show that information from former GDR coworkers … in West Germany significantly increased the employment probability of East Germans in West Germany. To identify these …

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Bunte Karte, bunte Wahlen? AfD-Präferenzen jenseits von Ost und West

Kopka, Alexander; Runst, Petrik - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 104 (2024) 9, pp. 614-617

Der scharfe Ost-West-Unterschied, welcher in der kartografischen Darstellung regionaler Wahlergebnisse zum Vorschein tritt, verändert sich deutlich, sobald man regionalspezifische Charakteristika berücksichtigt. Die höhere Präferenz für die AfD ist nach Berücksichtigung der Merkmale...

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Historical legacies of regional innovation activity : the case of East and West Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Greve, Maria; Wyrwich, Michael - In: Roadblocks to the Socialist Modernization Path and …, (pp. 91-111). 2024

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Forced migration and local public policies : evidence from post-war West Germany

Chevalier, Arnaud; Elsner, Benjamin; Lichter, Andreas; … - In: Journal of the European Economic Association : JEEA 22 (2024) 2, pp. 915-962

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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024

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 …

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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024

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Seventy-five years West German currency reform : crisis as catalyst for the erosion of the market order

Schnabl, Gunther - In: Kyklos : international review for social sciences 77 (2024) 1, pp. 77-96

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Holding the door slightly open: Germany's migrants' return intentions and realizations

Sallam, Hend - 2023

Return migration intentions are complex and are not necessarily followed by future return migration. Our study compares successful return or repeated migration with self-declared return intentions. We take advantage of the latest German Socio-Economic Panel survey dropout studies and fieldwork...

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