A quarter-century after reunification, labor productivity in eastern Germany continues to lag systematically behind the … West. Denison-Hall-Jones point-in-time estimates point to large gaps in total factor productivity as the proximate cause …, capital intensity in eastern Germany, especially in industry, has overshot values in the West, casting doubt on the embodied …

enable eastern Germany to catch-up with western Germany's productivity and living standards. This book evaluates the main …Following German reunification in 1990, East Germany's centrally planned economy was abolished and replaced by West … Germany's social market economy. Western Germany has since provided vast financial support to aid the transformation, and …

reunifications include a slow convergence of incomes and productivity of regions, important political barriers to the creation of a …This paper examines the possibilities for, and obstacles to, the reunification of North and South Korea based on the … experiences of the reunifications of Italy, the United States and Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries. Common elements of these …