are applicable beyond Germany. We use an event study design to exploit the quasi-random timing and allocation of …

There is a large and successful literature exploiting the division and re-unification of Germany as a natural … participation (FLFP) in East Germany as compared to West Germany. The starting point of the analysis is the empirical pattern that …

re-unification of Germany as a natural experiment for analysing the effects of political regimes on economic behaviour …, of higher pre-war female labour supply in East Germany, this paper shows an almost negligible long-term socialist … German women in work in pre-War Germany. The paper exemplifies that considering the pre-separation history of Germany is …

-based democracy of West Germany after reunification. Protesters, those who helped to overthrow the socialist regime in the Peaceful … decades after the reunification of Germany. …

system, improved their situation. With newly available panel data on East Germany's socialist past, the German Democratic …

decades after the reunification of Germany. …