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The objective of this paper is to address the question of convergence across German districts in the first decade after German unification by drawing out and emphasising some stylised facts of regional per capita income dynamics. We achieve this by employing non-parametric techniques which focus...
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unionization has become more and more similar in eastern and western Germany in the period 1992 to 2000. The originally high level … of union density in eastern Germany has dropped below that of western Germany, and union membership has been falling … individuals? probability of union membership have converged over time between western and eastern Germany. After an assimilation …
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Using unique new data and a recently introduced non-linear decomposition technique this paper shows that the huge difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and human capital intensity.
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ischaemic heart diseases (IHD) inWest and East Germany from 1996 to 2004. Our main result reveals that the number of … catch-up process in the number of IC facilities provided relative to West Germany. …
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Since the beginning of the transformation of East Germany from a socialist planned economy to a market economy, there …, and political problems of East Germany, thereby narrowing the gap between East and West Germany. This paper uses panel … West Germany observed during the first years after reunification has not been maintained. In short, some East German …
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while their risk of becoming unemployed was lower. In particular in eastern Germany, joining firms that were older than six …
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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 …
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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 …
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markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …
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unionization has become more and more similar in eastern and western Germany in the period 1992 to 2000. The originally high level … of union density in eastern Germany has dropped below that of western Germany, and union membership has been falling … individuals' probability of union membership have converged over time between western and eastern Germany. After an assimilation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299235