simultaneously explains participation, employment and wages. The model, estimated for East and West Germany on the basis of the …

Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) allows for taking into account two political regimes and … that in both parts of Germany women’s probability of having a first child is negatively correlated with both employment and …

by a growing approval of maternal employment, especially in western Germany. However, differences in actual working hours …

Germany following German Unification. Using a unique large-scale German administrative data set, we measure individuals …

Germany following German Unification. Using a unique large-scale German administrative data set, we measure individuals …

This article shows how the impulses of the transformation process in eastern Germany have spread through the economy … persistently lower wages and higher unemployment rates in eastern compared with western Germany. …

We demonstrate that almost one half of the observed wage gap between East and West Germany reflects differences in …

Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with groups of West German statistical twin workers, all taken from the Socio …. Wages of migrants to West Germany equal the ones of their West German statistical twins. We conclude that labor markets in … East and West Germany are still characterized by wage differences but that the degree of inequality in both regions …

region where the degree was earned, and the place of work. Eastern Germany serves as an interesting showcase in light of the … ongoing debate surrounding the underrepresentation of eastern Germans in top positions in Germany. We examine the career paths … PhD graduates and their place of birth collected from data on PhD dissertations in Germany with data from administrative …

Western parts of Germany. Empirical analysis reveals that wages of male job stayers in the Eastern and Western parts of … Germany are rigid, which leads to significant wage flexibility for internal and external movers. At the aggregate level, wages … flexibility in Germany's labor market can be attributed to relatively more flexible wages of the external and internal movers in a …