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Does regional context affect populist voting? : A comparative multilevel analysis from Czechia and eastern Germany

Refisch, Martin; Bernard, Josef; Kostelecký, Tomáš; … - 2026

This study examines the relationship between regional left-behindness and populist voting behaviour in post-socialist contexts, addressing gaps in the 'geography of discontent' literature. Using multilevel analyses, we investigate how dimensions of regional disadvantage affect support for...

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Preparing kids for capitalism : the effect of German reunification on the intergenerational transmission of preferences

Doepke, Matthias; Klasing, Mariko - 2026

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State machinery building and economic transition : lessons from the German unification

Nakamura, Yasushi - 2025

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Beyond monetary measures : determinants of multidimensional poverty among vulnerable older children and youth in East Germany : a perspective from capability approach and capital theory

Jost, Charlotte Margarete; Nimeh, Zina - 2026

This paper investigates child poverty in Germany through a multidimensional lens, combining Sen’s Capability Approach and Bourdieu’s Capital Theory to develop a adapted Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for children above 11 and youth aged 17. Drawing on data from the German...

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Fiscal capacity of German federal states : East-West gap narrows, but rich-poor divide grows

Deuverden, Kristina van - 2025

Even now, 35 years after German unification, the economic power and fiscal capacity of the eastern German federal states remain below average. In Germany's system of fiscal federalism, this leads to substantial financial transfers, a fact that repeatedly triggers political debate. Thereby, the...

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Strukturwandel in Mitteldeutschland

Kropp, Per; Fritzsche, Birgit; Theuer, Stefan - 2026

Technologischer Wandel, darunter die Digitalisierung vieler Wirtschaftsbereiche, die Verschiebung von Märkten und nicht zuletzt die demografische Entwicklung prägten den beruflichen Strukturwandel in Mitteldeutschland in der letzten Dekade. Diese Entwicklung abzubilden ist das Ziel der...

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Productivity : East-West gap replaced by urban-rural gap

Gornig, Martin - 2025

In 1991, the average labor productivity of the then-new federal states (plus West Berlin) only reached nearly half of the total national productivity level. Since then, the average labor productivity of these states has climbed up to nearly 90 percent. However, the ranking of the individual...

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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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Attack on climate : the persistent effects of authoritarianism on climate policy equilibria

Surdea-Hernea, Vlad - 2025

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Western TV and crimes against foreigners in East Germany

Fieles-Ahmad, Omar Martin; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2026

Following reunification, anti-foreigner crimes rose sharply in the former GDR. Using countylevel data for the early 1990s, we study if regional access to Western TV, i.e. non-socialist media, prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall had an impact on regional levels of serious antiforeigner crime...

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Western TV and crimes against foreigners in East Germany

Fieles-Ahmad, Omar Martin; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2026

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Western TV and crimes against foreigners in East Germany

Fieles-Ahmad, Omar Martin; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2026

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Adult education and political participation : evidence from East German Volkshochschulen

Rupieper, Li Kathrin Kaja; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2026

This paper examines the effects of voluntary, non-formal adult education on political attitudes, participation, and partisanship, exploiting the expansion of courses at East German Volkshochschulen (VHS) after reunification. Combining administrative VHS data with individual survey data and...

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Adult education and political participation : evidence from East German Volkshochschulen

Rupieper, Li Kathrin Kaja; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2026

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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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Costs of farmland fragmentation : evidence from farmland transactions in Eastern Germany

Isenhardt, Lars; Seifert, Stefan; Wiltfang, Theelke; … - 2025

Farmland fragmentation in use is related to higher operation cost and reduced productivity, while ownership fragmentation increases transaction costs, both leading to ineffi-cient land use and diminished overall farm performance. This paper aims to quantify the costs of farmland ownership...

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Der ostdeutsche Agrarsektor und seine Transformation in den Jahren 1989-2000 : privatwirtschaftliche Umwandlung und gewerkschaftliche Intervention

Fattmann, Rainer; Bieler, Ingeborg; Fock, Theodor; … - 2026

Nach der deutschen Wiedervereinigung vollzog sich in der ostdeutschen Landwirtschaft ein tiefgreifender Wandel. Dieser Prozess hatte existenzielle Folgen für die Beschäftigten und wurde von der Gewerkschaft Gartenbau, Land- und Forstwirtschaft (GGLF) begleitet, die später in der IG...

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Can voluntary adult education reduce unemployment? : causal evidence from East Germany after reunification

Rupieper, Li Kathrin Kaja; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2025

After the German reunification in 1990, East Germany transitioned from a centrally planned economic system to a market economy. To tackle surging unemployment, upskilling through adult education was deemed essential at the time. Besides substantial mandatory training programs provided by active...

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Can voluntary adult education reduce unemployment? : causal evidence from East Germany after reunification

Rupieper, Li Kathrin Kaja; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2024

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Can voluntary adult education reduce unemployment? : causal evidence from East Germany after reunification

Rupieper, Li Kathrin Kaja; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2024

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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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Administrative areas and regional identity formation : the case of East Germany

Gäbler, Stefanie; Kellermann, Kim Leonie - 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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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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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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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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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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Brandmauer - still alive! : empirical findings on support for the AfD by established parties in Eastern Germany (2019-2024)

Schroeder, Wolfgang; Ziblatt, Daniel; Bochert, Florian - 2025

For years, federal politicians from all established parties have categorically ruled out any cooperation with the Alternative for Germany (AfD), erecting a so-called "firewall" ("Brandmauer") against the party. Nevertheless, reports increasingly document instances where this firewall is eroding,...

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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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How language power, white subalternity and compressed modernity frame highly-skilled non-Western migrants in an East-German company : insights from multi-sited ethnography

Mahadevan, Jasmin - 2024

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The long-term effects of air pollution on health and labor market outcomes : evidence from socialist East Germany

Lubczyk, Moritz; Waldinger, Maria - 2025

What are the long-run effects of sustained exposure to air pollution? A unique natural experiment allows us to examine this question. In 1982, a sudden cut in Soviet oil forced Socialist East Germany to switch to highly polluting lignite coal. While the shock sharply increased air pollution near...

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The long-term effects of air pollution on health and labor market outcomes : evidence from socialist East Germany

Lubczyk, Moritz; Waldinger, Maria - 2025

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Mythen und Wahrheit : Landtagswahlen in Ostdeutschland

Rösel, Felix - 2024

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Building capacity in the public administration : evidence from german reunification

Dwenger, Nadja; Gumpert, Anna - 2025

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Building capacity in the public administration : evidence from German reunification

Dwenger, Nadja; Gumpert, Anna - 2025

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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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Bevölkerungsprognose für die Braunkohleregionen Deutschlands: Mitteldeutsches Revier : Bevölkerungseffekte der Strukturwandelmaßnahmen auf Basis der BBSR-Raumordnungsprognose 2045

Lebhart, Gustav; Noack, Robert - 2025

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Optimal reserve prices for land auctions in Eastern Germany

Kionka, Marlene; Mußhoff, Oliver; Ritter, Matthias; … - 2024

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Rising waters, falling well-being : the effects of the 2013 East German flood on subjective well-being

Fernando, Sachintha; Kolb, Katharina; Wunder, Christoph - 2025

This paper employs a panel event study design to examine the causal effects of the 2013 flood disaster in East Germany on subjective well-being. We merge geo-spatial flood data with longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to identify individuals in affected municipalities....

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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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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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Catching-up modernization : synthetic fiber in East Germany and Poland

Flade, Falk - 2024

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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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The communist new man versus the bourgeois individual : family enterprise in Poland and East Germany

Kamosiński, Sławomir - 2024

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Brandmauer - is still alive! : empirische Ergebnisse zur Unterstützung der AfD in den ostdeutschen Kommunen durch etablierte Parteien (2019-2024)

Schroeder, Wolfgang; Ziblatt, Daniel; Bochert, Florian - 2024

Seit Jahren wird von Bundespolitikerinnen und -politikern aller etablierten Parteien eine Kooperation mit der AfD strikt ausgeschlossen - eine sogenannte "Brandmauer" zur AfD errichtet. Zugleich wird vermehrt über Fälle berichtet, in denen diese Brandmauer bröckelt und etablierte Parteien mit...

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The question of legacies : socialist elites in post-socialist transformations - East Germany's elites from a comparative perspective (1990-2020)

Cordes, Charlotta; Zum Felde, Mareike; Pleines, Heiko - 2024

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Knowledge transfer from the outside or self-learning? : keys to success for the establishment of innovative companies in Eastern Germany after 1989

Steinkamp, Anna M. - 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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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024

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Local high school closures and voter turnout : evidence from East German municipalities

Foertsch, Mona - 2024

Do changes in public infrastructure impact voter turnout? After reunification numerous high schools have been closed in East Germany. Difference-in-differences estimations show that high school closures between 1992 and 2010 triggered a decline in voter turnout in the following state election,...

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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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What moves farmland markets : decomposing the price surge in eastern Germany

Hainbach, Tim; Hüttel, Silke; Werwatz, Axel - 2024

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Television and family demography : evidence from a natural experiment in East Germany

Hartmann, Sven Alfred - 2024

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Television and family demography : evidence from a natural experiment in East Germany

Hartmann, Sven Alfred - 2024

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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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Entwicklung und Zukunft des ostdeutschen Arbeitsmarkts

Thode, Eric; Wink, Roman - 2024

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Restoring Ukraine : parallels between Visegrad Group and East Germany in the 90s

Puzikova, Valentyna - 2024

Ukraine's post-conflict economy needs new opportunities to grow because it has not been able to rebuild itself economically. As we live in an era of globalization, it is crucial that national economies - especially Ukraine's - meet the demands of the international community. With its...

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Inter- and intragenerational differences in corrupt behavior : the development of morals after German reunification

Auer, Thorsten; Berg, Timo; Hoffmann, Christin - 2024

We investigate differencesin bribing decisions among two generationsfrom East and West Germany in a bribery game conducted as an online study (N=168). This way, we aim to exploremoral considerations ofindividualsinfluenced by two formerly different institutional systems. We find a higher...

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Regional income inequality in Germany

Frieden, Immo; Peichl, Andreas; Schüle, Paul Valentin - 2023

We characterize regional inequality in gross incomes at the municipality level in Germany using data from administrative tax returns for the period 1998-2016. More unequal municipalities are more likely to be urban and located in West Germany. Decomposing the increase in inequality in the last...

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Committing to grow : privatizations and firm dynamics in East Germany

Akcigit, Ufuk; Alp, Harun; Diegmann, André; … - 2024

We develop a labor demand model that encompasses pre‑match hiring cost arising from tight labor markets. Through the lens of the model, we study the effect of labor market tightness on firms' labor demand by applying novel Bartik instruments to the universe of administrative employment data on...

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