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The Gender Wage Gap and Discrimination, East Germany 1990-1997

East Germany has undergone rapid transition from a socialist to a market economy since the fall of the Berlin Wall. We are interested in whether women are better off or worse off relative to men as a result of this transition. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel Data 1990–1997 to study wage determination and we implement a decomposition analysis that accounts for selection bias issues. Our analysis ...

Decomposing Male Inequality Change in East Germany During Transition

Is Child like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin

The speed at which immigrants assimilate is the subject of debate. Human capital formation plays a major role in this discussion. This paper compares the educational attainment of second generation immigrants to those of natives in the same age cohort. Evidence using a large German data set suggests ethnicity does matter: the size of the ethnic network has a positive effect on educational attainment, ...

Does Unobserved Heterogeneity Matter? A Panel Data Analysis of the Gender Pay Gap

Unemployment Benefits as a Search Subsidy: New Evidence on Duration and Wage Effects of Unemployment Insurance

Welfare State Stabilization of Employment Careers: Unemployment Benefits and Job Histories in the United States and West Germany

Unemployment Dynamics in the United States and West Germany - Economic Restructuring, Institutions and Labor Market Processes (Dissertation)

Unempoyment Insurance and the Stability of Earnings: A Comparison of Work Exits from Unemployment in the United States and West Germany

Institutions and the Structure of Labour Market Matching in the United States and West Germany

Welfare States and the Scar Effects of Unemployment: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and West Germany