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West Germany 1,953 Westdeutsche Bundesländer 1,939 Deutschland 1,882 Germany 1,599 East Germany 1,332 Ostdeutschland 1,317 Deutschland <Westliche Länder> 845 Schätzung 434 Vergleich 424 Deutschland <Östliche Länder> 400 Alte Bundesländer 383 Estimation 377 Comparison 339 Neue Bundesländer 258 Nationale Einheit 177 National unity 164 Lohnstruktur 151 Industrie 143 Einkommensverteilung 131 Wage structure 129 Economic convergence 123 Weibliche Arbeitskräfte 122 Arbeitslosigkeit 120 Wirtschaftliche Konvergenz 119 Women workers 117 Wirtschaftliche Anpassung 116 Unternehmensgründung 109 Räumliche Verteilung 107 Income distribution 106 Spatial distribution 102 Economic adjustment 101 Geschlecht 99 Theorie 97 Unemployment 94 Manufacturing industries 92 Gender 90 Regionaler Arbeitsmarkt 90 Arbeitsmarkt 89 Theory 89 Regionalentwicklung 88
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Free 1,135 Undetermined 137 CC license 19
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Book / Working Paper 2,000 Article 1,056 Journal 44
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Working Paper 742 Graue Literatur 718 Non-commercial literature 718 Article in journal 615 Aufsatz in Zeitschrift 615 Arbeitspapier 557 Aufsatz im Buch 215 Book section 215 Hochschulschrift 202 Thesis 145 Article 102 Dissertation u.a. Prüfungsschriften 102 Collection of articles of several authors 67 Sammelwerk 67 Statistik 67 Aufsatzsammlung 51 Konferenzschrift 50 Bibliografie enthalten 45 Bibliography included 45 Statistics 37 Amtsdruckschrift 32 Government document 32 Advisory report 27 Gutachten 27 Forschungsbericht 25 Conference proceedings 23 Collection of articles written by one author 16 Sammlung 16 Umfrage 15 Book Part 9 No longer published / No longer aquired 8 Research Report 8 Case study 6 Conference paper 6 Fallstudie 6 Konferenzbeitrag 6 Bibliographie 5 Fallstudiensammlung 5 Elektronischer Datenträger 4 Handbook 4
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German 1,628 English 1,369 Undetermined 117 French 2 Korean 1 Dutch 1 Russian 1
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Weichselberger, Annette 69 Fritsch, Michael 50 Wagner, Joachim 49 Schnabel, Claus 47 Riphahn, Regina T. 35 Ragnitz, Joachim 34 Steiner, Viktor 34 Fitzenberger, Bernd 31 Funke, Michael 25 Falck, Oliver 24 Almus, Matthias 23 Braun, Sebastian 23 Niebuhr, Annekatrin 23 Heblich, Stephan 19 Kvasnicka, Michael 19 Bauer, Thomas K. 18 Lehmann, Robert 18 Möller, Joachim 17 Schneider, Lutz 17 Bellmann, Lutz 15 Berlemann, Michael 15 Biewen, Martin 15 Pfeiffer, Friedhelm 15 Süssmuth, Bernd 15 Wyrwich, Michael 15 Brixy, Udo 14 Prantl, Susanne 14 Dustmann, Christian 13 Frick, Joachim R. 13 Gernandt, Johannes 13 Grundig, Beate 13 Kreyenfeld, Michaela 13 Nagl, Wolfgang 13 Nitsch, Volker 13 Thum, Marcel 13 Boll, Christina 12 Czarnitzki, Dirk 12 Fuchs, Michaela 12 Geyer, Johannes 12 Jirjahn, Uwe 12
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National Bureau of Economic Research 15 Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung 13 Deutschland / Statistisches Bundesamt 9 Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung 7 Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung 7 Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 6 Ludwig-Erhard-Stiftung 5 Bundesforschungsanstalt für Landeskunde und Raumordnung 4 Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel / Institut für Weltwirtschaft 4 De Gruyter Oldenbourg 4 Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 4 Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der Gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung 4 Sozialwissenschaftliches Forschungszentrum Berlin-Brandenburg 4 Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung 4 Deutschland / Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung 3 Deutschland / Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Bau und Stadtentwicklung 3 Frankfurter Institut für Wirtschaftspolitische Forschung / Kronberger Kreis 3 Fraunhofer-Institut für Systemtechnik und Innovationsforschung 3 Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 3 ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V. 3 Agrarsoziale Gesellschaft 2 Arbeitsgemeinschaft Media-Analyse 2 Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung 2 Deutsche Bundesbank 2 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Demographie 2 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Demographie / Arbeitskreis Migration, Integration, Minderheiten 2 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie / Sektion Soziale Indikatoren 2 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Sektion Soziale Indikation 2 Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik 2 Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung / Arbeitskreis Langfristprognose 2 Deutschland 2 Deutschland / Bundesministerium für Raumordnung, Bauwesen und Städtebau 2 Deutschland / Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Bau- und Wohnungswesen 2 Deutschland <Bundesrepublik> / Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt 2 Deutschland <Bundesrepublik> / Statistisches Bundesamt 2 Einheit und Transformation - Gewerkschaften im deutschen Einheitsprozess <Veranstaltung> <2015, Berlin> 2 Erlanger Werkstattgespräch <19, 1990, Bonn> 2 Europäische Gemeinschaften 2 Hans-Böckler-Stiftung 2 Institut für Demoskopie <Allensbach> 2
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ifo Dresden berichtet 83 Ifo-Schnelldienst 52 ZEW discussion papers 51 Discussion paper series / IZA 44 Ifo Schnelldienst 44 Wirtschaft im Wandel 38 Discussion paper 36 IZA Discussion Paper 35 SOEP papers on multidisciplinary panel data research / German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), DIW Berlin 32 ifo Schnelldienst 32 DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 29 IZA Discussion Papers 26 CESifo working papers 24 Ifo Dresden berichtet 21 ZEW Discussion Papers 20 Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 19 Discussion papers / Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung 18 Schmollers Jahrbuch : journal of contextual economics 18 Discussion paper / ZEW, Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung 17 Europäische Hochschulschriften / 5 17 HWWA discussion paper 16 Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 16 CESifo Working Paper Series 15 IAB-Kurzbericht : aktuelle Analysen aus dem Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung 15 Informationen zur Raumentwicklung : IzR 15 NBER working paper series 15 IAB discussion paper : Beiträge zum wissenschaftlichen Dialog aus dem Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung 14 SOEPpaper 14 Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 14 DIW Discussion Papers 13 NBER Working Paper 13 Working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. 13 IWH-Diskussionspapiere 12 Zeitschrift für Bevölkerungswissenschaft : Demographie 12 CESifo Working Paper 11 Discussion paper / Centre for Economic Policy Research 11 Jena economics research papers 11 Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung 11 Zeitschrift für Kommunalfinanzen : ZKF ; Haushalt, Kostenrechnung, Steuern, Gebühren, Beiträge, Entgelte, Kredite, Zahlungsverkehr, Vollstreckung 11 IW-Trends : Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen Wirtschaftsforschung aus dem Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft Köln 10
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Migration and innovation : the impact of East German inventors on West Germany's technological development
Bergeaud, Antonin; Deter, Max; Greve, Maria; Wyrwich, … - 2025
We investigate the causal relationship between inventor migration and regional innovation in the context of the large-scale migration shock from East to West Germany between World War II and the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Leveraging a newly constructed, century-spanning dataset on...
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Migration and innovation : the impact of East German inventors on West Germany's technological development
Bergeaud, Antonin; Deter, Max; Greve, Maria; Wyrwich, … - 2025
We investigate the causal relationship between inventor migration and regional innovation in the context of the large-scale migration shock from East to West Germany between World War II and the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Leveraging a newly constructed, century-spanning dataset on...
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Migration and innovation : the impact of East German investors on West Germany's technological development
Bergeaud, Antonin; Deter, Max; Greve, Maria; Wyrwich, … - 2025
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To converge or not to converge : accounting for the German reunification
Fehrle, Daniel - 2025
German reunification in 1990 marked the first sudden integration of a socialist and capitalist economy. Despite East Germany’s (EG) economic catch-up with West Ger- many (WG), the integration remains unfinished, as indicated by per capita output in EG still being about one-third lower. To...
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Historical legacies of regional innovation activity : the case of East and West Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Greve, Maria; Wyrwich, Michael - In: Roadblocks to the Socialist Modernization Path and …, (pp. 91-111). 2024
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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - In: Labour : review of labour economics and industrial relations 38 (2024) 4, pp. 475-510
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Does society influence the gender gap in risk attitudes? : evidence from East and West Germany
Chadi, Cornelia; Jirjahn, Uwe - In: Journal of behavioral and experimental economics 113 (2024), pp. 1-11
Previous international research suggests that women are on average more risk averse than men. This gives rise to the question of whether the gender gap in risk attitudes is shaped by the social environment. We address this question by examining risk attitudes among East and West Germans. Even...
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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024
We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We compare their wage assimilation to that of ethnic German immigrants from Eastern Bloc countries and international immigrants to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The...
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Forced migration and local public policies : evidence from post-war West Germany
Chevalier, Arnaud; Elsner, Benjamin; Lichter, Andreas; … - In: Journal of the European Economic Association : JEEA 22 (2024) 2, pp. 915-962
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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024
We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We compare their wage assimilation to that of ethnic German immigrants from Eastern Bloc countries and international immigrants to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The...
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Bunte Karte, bunte Wahlen? AfD-Präferenzen jenseits von Ost und West
Kopka, Alexander; Runst, Petrik - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 104 (2024) 9, pp. 614-617
Der scharfe Ost-West-Unterschied, welcher in der kartografischen Darstellung regionaler Wahlergebnisse zum Vorschein tritt, verändert sich deutlich, sobald man regionalspezifische Charakteristika berücksichtigt. Die höhere Präferenz für die AfD ist nach Berücksichtigung der Merkmale...
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Seventy-five years West German currency reform : crisis as catalyst for the erosion of the market order
Schnabl, Gunther - In: Kyklos : international review for social sciences 77 (2024) 1, pp. 77-96
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Trends in women’s educational advantage and divorce in East and West Germany
Mazzeo, Flavia; Schwartz, Christine; Scherer, Stefani; … - In: Comparative population studies : CPoS ; open acess … 49 (2024), pp. 317-336
Couples in which wives have more education than their husbands have been found to be more likely than other couples to divorce. But this relationship varies across time and place. We compare the relationship between spouses' relative education and marital dissolution across four birth cohorts...
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Shades of a socialist legacy? : innovation activity in East and West Germany 1877-2014
Fritsch, Michael; Greve, Maria; Wyrwich, Michael - 2023
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Regional Heterogeneity in the Link between Lifetime Earnings and Life Expectancy
Glaubitz, Rick - 2023
This study uses administrative data from the German Pension Insurance and combines a wide range of regional data sources in order to shine light on regional variation in the relationship between life expectancy and lifetime earnings in Germany. Moreover, it advances understanding of which place...
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Earnings Assimilation of Post-Unification East German Migrants in West Germany - the Role of Cultural Similarity
Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2023
An immigrant-native wage gap can result from various mechanisms. This paper studies the relevance of cultural similarity. We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after unification (1990-1999). We compare their wage assimilation to that of international...
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Shades of a socialist legacy? : innovation activity in East and West Germany 1877-2014
Fritsch, Michael; Greve, Maria; Wyrwich, Michael - 2023
The unification of the East and West German states in 1990 initiated the integration of two distinct innovation systems. In this process, the poorly functioning socialist system of East Germany adopted the formal institutions and organization of West Germany, a western-style market economy. We...
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Should mama or papa work? : variations in attitudes towards parental employment by country of origin and child age
Gambaro, Ludovica; Spieß, C. Katharina; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: Comparative population studies : CPoS ; open acess … 48 (2023), pp. 369-394
Employment among mothers has been rising in recent decades, although mothers of young children often work fewer hours than other women do. Parallel to this trend, approval of maternal employment has increased, albeit not evenly across groups. However, differences in attitudes remain unexplored...
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Can television reduce xenophobia? : the case of East Germany
Hornuf, Lars; Rieger, Marc Oliver; Hartmann, Sven Alfred - In: Kyklos : international review for social sciences 76 (2023) 1, pp. 77-100
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Good bye Lenin revisited : East-West preferences three decades after German reunification
Bondar, Mariia; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - In: German economic review : GER 24 (2023) 1, pp. 97-119
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The effects of public childcare expansion on child penalties : evidence from West Germany
Lim, Nayeon; Duletzki, Lisa-Marie - 2023
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One economy, but different growth regimes : why Germany's rural east is still lagging
Margarian, Anne; Hundt, Christian - In: Competitiveness review : CR 33 (2023) 7, pp. 1-21
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How the West was Settled. The Location Choice of East German Companies Migrating to West Germany after World War II
Donges, Alexander; Streb, Jochen - 2023
The division of Germany into a free-market West and a socialist East that followed the military defeat in spring 1945 induced thousands of East German companies to relocate to the West in the following years. This exogenous mass exodus allows us to identify the motives for the choice of firm...
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Migration and innovation : the impact of east german inventors on west germany’s technological development
Bergeaud, Antonin; Deter, Max; Greve, Maria; Wyrwich, … - 2025
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Can Television Reduce Xenophobia? The Case of East Germany
Hornuf, Lars; Rieger, Marc Oliver; Hartmann, Sven Alfred - 2022
Can television have a mitigating effect on xenophobia? To explore this question, we investigate a natural experiment in which individuals in some regions of East Germany could not—due to their geographic location—consume West German television until 1989. By analyzing survey data from the...
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Sources of Wage Growth
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian - 2022
This paper investigates the sources of wage growth over the life cycle, where individuals have the possibility to acquire vocational training at the start of their career. Wage growth is determined by sectoral and firm mobility, unobserved ability and the accumulation of human capital. Workers...
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Occupational change and wage inequality in Germany
Lüttge, Julius - 2022
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The impact of sanctions for young welfare recipients on transitions to work and wages, and on dropping out
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - In: Economica 89 (2022) 353, pp. 1-28
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Sterilization and Offsetting Capital Movements : Evidence from West Germany, 1960-1970
Obstfeld, Maurice - 2022
The purpose of this paper is two fold. First, to estimate, using structural methods, the extent to which capital flows undermined West German monetary policy during the Bretton Woods years 1960 to 1970 and second, to show that earlier reduced form estimates of the capital-account offset...
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Working mothers in East and West Germany : a cluster analysis using a three-stage approach
Ziegler, Yvonne; Graml, Regine; Khachatryan, Kristine; … - In: Gender in management : an international journal 37 (2022) 3, pp. 423-437
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The Career Costs of Children's Health Shocks
Breivik, Anne-Lise; Costa-Ramón, Ana - 2022
We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the causal effect, we leverage long panels of high-quality Finnish and Norwegian administrative data and exploit variation in the timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing...
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Regimes of truth and the discontent of memories : self-deception and denial during the growing together of the two Germanies
Lindenberger, Thomas - In: Remembering the neoliberal turn : economic change and …, (pp. 93-111). 2024
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New Evidence on the Dynamic Wage Curve for Western Germany : 1980-2004
Baltagi, Badi H.; Blien, Uwe; Wolf, Katja - 2021
In 1994, Blanchflower and Oswald reported that they have found an "empirical law of economics" - the Wage Curve. According to their empirical results, the elasticity of wages with respect to regional unemployment is -0.1. This holds especially for the Anglo-Saxon countries. Our paper reconsiders...
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The Aging of the Unions in West Germany, 1980-2006
Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2021
Using data from the social survey ALLBUS for West Germany in the period 1980 to 2006, this paper demonstrates that union members are on average older than non-unionized employees. The probability of being unionized shows the inverted U-shaped pattern in age conjectured by Blanchflower (BJIR...
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Trust in Public Finance
Slemrod, Joel - 2021
Using data on trust and trustworthiness from the 1990 wave of the World Values Survey, I first investigate a model of the extent of tax cheating and the size of government that recognizes the interdependence of the two. The results reveal that tax cheating is lower in countries that exhibit more...
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The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Spatial Frictions
Heise, Sebastian; Porzio, Tommaso - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We develop a general equilibrium model of frictional labor reallocation across firms and regions, and use it to quantify the aggregate and distributional effects of spatial frictions that hinder worker mobility across regions in Germany. The model leverages matched employer-employee data to...
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The importance of mothers-in-law's employment for their daughter-in-law's labour market outcomes in West Germany : results and mechanisms
Schmitz, Sophia; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2021
Social norms have been put forward as prominent explanations for the changing labour supply decisions of women. This paper studies the intergenerational formation of these norms, examining how they affect subsequent female labour supply decisions, taking into account not only the early...
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Alterssicherung in Deutschland 2019 (ASID 2019) : Tabellenband 1 - alte Länder
Heien, Thorsten; Krämer, Marvin - 2021
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Socioeconomic inequality in academia : machine learning-based data perspectives and empirical findings on junior researchers in Germany
Rehs, Andreas - 2021
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Decrease in life expectancy in Germany in 2020 : men from Eastern Germany most affected
Luy, Marc; Sauerberg, Markus; Muszyńska-Spielauer, … - In: Comparative population studies : CPoS ; open acess … 46 (2021), pp. 555-574
The COVID-19 pandemic caused an increase in mortality in 2020 with a resultant decrease in life expectancy in most countries around the world. In Germany, the reduction in life expectancy at birth between 2019 and 2020 was comparatively small, at -0.20 years. The decrease was stronger among men...
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Explaining the Body Mass Index Gaps between Turkish Immigrants and Germans in West Germany 2002-2012 : A Decomposition Analysis of Socio-Economic Causes
Dang, Rui - 2021
In this paper, we decompose body mass index (BMI) differences between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany for women and men. We focus on isolating the part of BMI differences that can be explained by differences in observed socioeconomic status from the part attributable to...
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A Different Look at Lenin's Legacy : Trust, Risk, Fairness and Cooperativeness in the Two Germanies
Heineck, Guido; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2021
What are the long-term effects of Communism on economically relevant notions such as social trust? To answer this question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of convergence with regard to individuals’ trust and risk, as well...
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The Employment of Mothers - Recent Developments and Their Determinants in East and West Germany
Broadway, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2021
We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences disappear over time, and whether there are differences...
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From Politics to the Family : How Sex-Role Attitudes Keep on Diverging in Reunified Germany
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rainer, Helmut - 2021
What is the role of politics in shaping attitudes about appropriate roles for women in the family and the compatibility of work and motherhood? In this paper we argue that the German separation and later reunification produced a natural experiment to address this question. During the divided...
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The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree : Location of Start-Ups Relative to Incumbents
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2021
New firm location decisions, relative to incumbents may be based on a choice between two types of advantages: natural advantages or those that arise from social embeddedness, the latter of which may particularly include knowledge spillovers. We analyze the relative importance of geographically...
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East-West Migration and Gender : Is There a 'Double Disadvantage' vis-à-vis Stayers?
Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2021
This paper documents whether female East-West migrants in Germany after the reunification experience a gain or a disadvantage after they moved compared to both stayers and males. It employs panel data techniques to take account of unobserved heterogeneity. I find that migrant women after...
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Why More West than East German Firms Export
Wagner, Joachim - 2021
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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Trade Union Membership and Works Councils in West Germany
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2021
The fraction of works councillors belonging to a trade union in Germany is much higher than union density among employees. If works councils represent the face of unions, union membership of employees should be related positively to the existence of works councils and their proximity to unions....
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Tax Morale After the Reunification of Germany : Results from a Quasi-Natural Experiment
Feld, Lars P.; Torgler, Benno - 2021
This paper provides a comparison of tax morale between inhabitants of East and West Germany in its post-reunification period, using three World Values Survey/European Values Survey waves between 1990 and 1999. German reunification is particularly interesting for the analysis of tax morale as it...
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Family and Politics : Does Parental Unemployment Cause Right-Wing Extremism?
Siedler, Thomas - 2021
Recent years have witnessed a rise in right-wing extremism among German youth and young adults. This paper investigates the extent to which the experience of parental unemployment during childhood affects young people's far right-wing attitudes and xenophobia. Estimates from three different...
Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10013317349
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