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Economic Bulletin
by Karl Brenke in: DIW Economic Bulletin 11/2014
The economic gap between eastern and western Germany is still sizeable, even 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. In terms of GDP per inhabitant and productivity, eastern Germany has attained nearly three-quarters of western German levels, respectively. Since some years, the catch-up process is advancing very slowly indeed. The main reason ...
11.12.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Karl Brenke in: DIW Economic Bulletin 11/2014
Eastern Germany Must Focus on Education and Innovation: Six Questions to Karl Brenke
11.12.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Markus M. Grabka in: DIW Economic Bulletin 11/2014
Very nearly 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, households in eastern Germany have an average net worth of 67,400 euros which is less than half that of their counterparts in western Germany with an average net worth of 153,200 euros. In both parts of the country, real estate ownership is quantitatively the most important asset type. Although ...
11.12.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Elke Holst and Anna Wieber in: DIW Economic Bulletin 11/2014
Almost a quarter of a century after the fall of the Wall, there are still more women in employment in eastern Germany than in the west. Although the disparity is marginal now, the two regions started from dramatically different levels. In 1991, immediately after reunification, the employment rate for women in western Germany ...
11.12.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Anika Rasner in: DIW Economic Bulletin 11/2014
Now, 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, eastern and western German men are receiving similar state pensions, the main pillar in the system of old age provision in Germany. In contrast, the average pension paid to eastern German women far exceeds that of their western counterparts. A cohort comparison shows a narrowing of the gender gap ...
11.12.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Pia S. Schober and Juliane F. Stahl in: DIW Economic Bulletin 11/2014
In East Germany, prior to reunification, daycare provision was widely available to encourage mothers to return to work soon after giving birth. Conversely, in West Germany, childcare facilities for under-threes were few and far between and, at the end of the ’80s/ beginning of the ’90s, the length of parental ...
11.12.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Stefan Liebig and Sebastian Hülle, Jürgen Schupp in: DIW Economic Bulletin 11/2014
Almost twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, far more eastern Germans are unhappy with their income than western Germans. In 2013, around 44 percent of employed eastern Germans rated their earnings as unjust compared with approximately one-third in western Germany. Although the east-west ...
11.12.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Maximilian Priem and Jürgen Schupp in: DIW Economic Bulletin 11/2014
It is now a quarter of a century since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the gap in living standards between eastern and western Germany is still not fully closed. Admittedly, this could not realistically have been expected. Despite the increase in life satisfaction in eastern Germany, the east-west divide prevails. Evidence ...
11.12.2014
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DIW Discussion Papers 1432 / 2014
It is difficult to test the prediction that future career prospects create implicit effort incentives because researchers cannot randomly “assign” career prospects to economic agents. To overcome this challenge, we use data from professional soccer, where employees of the same club face different external career opportunities depending on their nationality. We test whether the career prospect of being ...
2014| Jeanine Miklós-Thal, Hannes Ullrich
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Press Release
The financial relationship between central government and the federal states is about to undergo major reforms. In addition to reorganizing financial equalization, policy-makers are now discussing providing financial aid for structurally weak regions once the Solidarity Pact expires, bolstering the general financial strength of states and establishing an effective debt ceiling. Against this backdrop, ...
10.12.2014