the data. Our study covers the whole of Germany as well as East andWest Germany separately. We exploit district-level data …

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

differences between regulated occupations and unregulated occupations in East Germany to the corresponding differences in West … Germany after reunification. Consistent with our expectations, we find that entry regulation reduces entry into selfemployment … and occupational mobility after reunification more in regulated occupations in East Germany than in West Germany. Our …

product policy. We analyse these questions with a unique data set provided by Statistics Germany that contains both product …

and long run, as well as in East and West Germany. Wage returns to the changes of task porfolios for the occupational …