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Economic incentives or social norms? : labor supply differentials between East and West German mothers

Chabé-Ferret, Bastien; Iftikhar, Zainab; Park, JungJae - 2026

This paper quantifies the contributions of social norms and economic incentives to the 350-hour annual gap in maternal labor supply between East and West Germany. Using a collective model of family formation and labor supply estimated on GSOEP data from 2000-2017, we find that the working-mother...

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Economic incentives or social norms? : labor supply differentials between East and West German mothers

Chabé-Ferret, Bastien; Iftikhar, Zainab; Park, JungJae - 2026

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Economic incentives or social norms? : labor supply differentials between east and west german mothers

Chabé-Ferret, Bastien; Iftikhar, Zainab; Park, JungJae - 2026

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The motherhood penalty in financial resources for retirement : a life course perspective on the accumulation of public pension wealth and personal wealth in East and West Germany

Möhring, Katja; Overweg, Clara; Weiland, Andreas P. - 2026

This study investigates the motherhood penalty on personal net wealth and public pension wealth, focusing on women born between 1937 and 1989. Expanding upon previous research, we (a) contrast the impact of motherhood on public pension wealth and net wealth, (b) adopt a dynamic perspective by...

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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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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

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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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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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35 Jahre grenzenlos : die Entwicklung der Regionen an der ehemaligen innerdeutschen Grenze

Fremerey, Melinda; Gerards Iglesias, Simon - 2025 - Stand: September 2025

Auch 35 Jahre nach der deutschen Einheit wird in Politik und Öffentlichkeit weiterhin intensiv darüber diskutiert, welche Unterschiede zwischen Ost und West bestehen und wie weit das Land tatsächlich zusammengewachsen ist. Besonders deutlich treten diese Differenzen im politischen...

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The effect of West German television on smoking and health : a natural experiment from German reunification

Bernini, Andrea; Hartmann, Sven Alfred - 2025

This paper examines the long-term impact of West German television exposure on smoking behavior in East Germany, with a focus on gender-specific responses. Using data from 1989 and 2002 and leveraging quasi-random variation in West German TV signal availability across East German regions, we...

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The effect of West German television on smoking and health : a natural experiment from German reunification

Bernini, Andrea; Hartmann, Sven Alfred - 2025

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Changes in birth seasonality in East and West Germany, 1946-2017

Conte Keivabu, Risto - 2025

Seasonal trends in fertility are found in several contexts and are affected by societal and environmental factors. This paper documents how birth seasonality in East and West Germany changed over time and, in particular, after 1989 and the onset of Reunification. We use birth counts by month...

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To converge or not to converge : accounting for the German reunification

Fehrle, Daniel; Konysev, Vasilij - 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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Regionale Faktoren der langfristigen Beschäftigungsentwicklung in Deutschland im Zeitraum 1999-2023

Baumann, Doris; Buch, Tanja; Fuchs, Stefan; Hell, Stefan; … - 2025

Die regionalen Arbeitsmärkte in Deutschland sind seit jeher unterschiedlichen strukturellen Bedingungen ausgesetzt, die sich auf das lokale Beschäftigungswachstum auswirken. In den letzten Jahren machen sich Effekte des demografischen Wandels, der Digitalisierung und der ökologischen...

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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024

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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024

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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024

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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024

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Bunte Karte, bunte Wahlen? AfD-Präferenzen jenseits von Ost und West

Kopka, Alexander; Runst, Petrik - 2024

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 - 2024

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Forced migration and local public policies : evidence from post-war West Germany

Chevalier, Arnaud; Elsner, Benjamin; Lichter, Andreas; … - 2024

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Historical legacies of regional innovation activity : the case of East and West Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Greve, Maria; Wyrwich, Michael - 2024

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Does society influence the gender gap in risk attitudes? : evidence from East and West Germany

Chadi, Cornelia; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2024

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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Does society influence the gender gap in risk attitudes? : evidence from East and West Germany

Chadi, Cornelia; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2019

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Does society influence the gender gap in risk attitudes? : evidence from East and West Germany

Chadi, Cornelia; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2019

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Does society influence the gender gap in risk attitudes? : evidence from East and West Germany

Chadi, Cornelia; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2019

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Trends in women's educational advantage and divorce in East and West Germany

Mazzeo, Flavia; Schwartz, Christine; Scherer, Stefani; … - 2024

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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Workplace connections and labor migration : the role of information in shaping expectations

Hansch, Michelle; Nimczik, Jan Sebastian; Spitz-Oener, … - 2024

In a context where improved employment outcomes entail relocating to a new destination, how does information from former coworkers alter workers’ labor migration decisions? We explore this question using the unique backdrop of German reunification in the early 1990s. For former workers of the...

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The dynamics of immigrant agency : identity formation, translanguaging and purposeful actions of post-Soviet migrants in West Germany

Havlin, Tetiana - 2026

This open access book explores the dynamics of human agency within the complex context of settlement-oriented immigration through an in-depth case study of immigrants from the former Soviet Union who embarked on their journey to Germany during the 1990s and early 2000s. Employing a transnational...

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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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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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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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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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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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One economy, but different growth regimes : why Germany's rural east is still lagging

Margarian, Anne; Hundt, Christian - 2023

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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 - 2023

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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The effects of public childcare expansion on child penalties : evidence from West Germany

Lim, Nayeon; Duletzki, Lisa-Marie - 2023

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Good bye Lenin revisited : East-West preferences three decades after German reunification

Bondar, Mariia; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2023

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Can television reduce xenophobia? : the case of East Germany

Hornuf, Lars; Rieger, Marc Oliver; Hartmann, Sven Alfred - 2023

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Can television reduce xenophobia? : the case of East Germany

Hornuf, Lars; Rieger, Marc Oliver - 2017

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Can television reduce xenophobia? : the case of East Germany

Hornuf, Lars; Rieger, Marc Oliver - 2017

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Can television reduce xenophobia? : the case of East Germany

Hornuf, Lars; Rieger, Marc Oliver - 2017

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Can Television Reduce Xenophobia? The Case of East Germany

Hornuf, Lars; Rieger, Marc Oliver; Hartmann, Sven Alfred - 2022

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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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The Apprentice Movement in the Federal Republic of Germany : Aufstand der Stifte, 1968-75

Ryan, Paul - 2025

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I: Situation and Events -- Chapter 2. Apprenticeship Then and Now -- Chapter 3. Three Campaigns - Chapter 4. The Movement: Attributes, Events, Goals and Methods -- Chapter 5. Participation in the Movement -- Part II. Background -- Chapter 6. Economics of...

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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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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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Sterilization and Offsetting Capital Movements : Evidence from West Germany, 1960-1970

Obstfeld, Maurice - 1980

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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; … - 2022

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Sources of wage growth

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian - 2023

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Sources of Wage Growth

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian - 2022

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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 - 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 - 2020

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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 - 2019

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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 - 2024

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The effects of education on health : an intergenerational perspective

Huebener, Mathias - 2024

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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 - 2015

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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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 - 2015

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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 - 2015

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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

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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 - 2015

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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 - 2015

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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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A Different Look at Lenin's Legacy : Trust, Risk, Fairness and Cooperativeness in the Two Germanies

Heineck, Guido; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2011

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A Different Look at Lenin's Legacy : Trust, Risk, Fairness and Cooperativeness in the Two Germanies

Heineck, Guido - 2010

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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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The Employment of Mothers : Recent Developments and Their Determinants in East and West Germany

Broadway, Barbara - 2011

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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 - 2007

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East-West Migration and Gender : Is There a 'Double Disadvantage' vis-à-vis Stayers?

Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2021

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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...

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Does Economic Uncertainty Affect the Decision to Bear Children? Evidence from East and West Germany

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - 2021

Although economic agents routinely face various types of economic uncertainty, their effects are often unclear and hard to assess, in part due to the absence of suitable measures of uncertainty. Because of the numerous and very substantial institutional changes that people in the transition...

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Local Employment Growth in West Germany : A Dynamic Panel Approach

Blien, Uwe; Südekum, Jens; Wolf, Katja - 2021

In this paper we study the dynamics of local employment growth in West Germany from 1980 to 2001. Using dynamic panel techniques, we analyse the timing of the impact of diversity and specialisation, as well as of the human capital structure of local industries. Diversity has a positive effect on...

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On the Post-Unification Development of Public and Private Pay in Germany

Heitmueller, Axel; Mavromaras, Kostas G. - 2021

German post-unification in the 1990s is a period that was marked by substantial economic change, part of which was East German wages building towards the much higher West German levels. This paper studies the public-private pay gap in the fast changing economic and political environment of the...

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The Savings Behavior of Temporary and Permanent Migrants in Germany

Bauer, Thomas K.; Sinning, Mathias - 2021

This paper examines the relative savings position of migrant households in West Germany, paying particular attention to differences between temporary and permanent migrants. Utilizing household level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), our findings reveal significant differences...

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