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

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

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

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. …

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 …

We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …

We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …

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 …

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