in industries and regions with low barriers to entry. This is particularly the case in East Germany, where the perceived …

consequences for aggregate labor productivity. Using high-quality administrative data from Germany, we document that East German … percent lower aggregate labor productivity in East Germany …

Start-up subsidies for the unemployed have long been an important active labor market policy strategy in Germany. The …

differences for different types of vocational training, minor differences between East and West Germany and males and females, and …

question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of …

. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences …

second exploits a quasi-experiment in East Germany created by a mistaken technology choice of the state …

birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future …

We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based …, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West Germany over the fifteen years for which data are available. Using a … highest negative income gap. This probably reflects out-migration from East Germany by the young and highly skilled. On the …