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The Response of Wages and Actual Hours Worked to the Reduction of Standard Hours

Why Do People Still Live in East Germany?

In 1997 GDP per capita in East Germany was 57% of that of West Germany, wage rates were 75% of western levels, and the unemployment rate was at least double the western rate of 7.8%. One would expect that if capital flows and trade in goods failed to bring convergence, labor flows would respond, enhancing overall efficiency. Yet net emigration from East Germany has fallen from high levels in 1989-1990 ...

Post-Unification Wage Growth in East Germany

The Transition in East Germany: When is a Ten Point Fall in the Gender Wage Gap Bad News?

The gender wage gap in East Germany has narrowed by 10 percentage points in transition, but women have experienced much more severe employment difficulties than men. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel for 1990–94, I show that on balance women have lost relative to men. Almost half the relative wage gain is due to exits from employment of the low skilled, who are disproportionately women. The female ...

Are Migrants More Skilled than Non-Migrants? Repeat, return, and same-employer migrants

Convergence and determinants of non-employment durations in Eastern and Western Germany

Staunching emigration from East Germany: Age and the determinants of migration

Flexible Work Time in Germany: Do Workers Like It and How Have Employers Exploited It Over the Cycle?

After describing qualitatively the increasingly flexible organization of work hours in Germany, I turn to the German Socio-Economic Panel to quantify practices and trends, and assess their effects on workers and employers. Measuring flexibility as the extent to which overtime is compensated with time off, and hence receives no overtime premium, I show that hourly-paid workers have undergone a regime ...

From Reunification to Economic Integration: Productivity and the Labor Market in East Germany

Naming Differences in Divided Germany

This article analyzes differences in naming between East and West Germany. After World War II, Germany was split by the allied forces. Two Germanies emerged: the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The country’s division lasted about forty years (1949–1989), a time span in which vastly different geo-political frameworks — Eastern bloc versus Western bloc — shaped ...