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    East German Unemployment: The Myth of the Irrelevant Labor Market

    01.01.2008

    This paper indicates that East Germany’s unemployment originates primarily in the labor market, caused by the fast wage adjustment after German reunification. We model the resulting labor market traps in a search and matching framework, show that...

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    Explaining the East German Productivity Gap – The Role of Human Capital

    01.01.2007

    The paper concentrates on the question whether the low level of productivity in East Germany can be explained by deficits in the stock of human capital. It is shown that figures on “formal” qualifications yield a too optimistic view on human capital...

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    Escaping The Unemployment Trap: The case of East Germany

    01.12.2008

    This paper addresses the question of why high unemployment rates tend to persist even after their proximate causes have been reversed (e.g., after wages relative to productivity have fallen). We suggest that the longer people are unemployed, the...

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    Escaping the Unemployment Trap - The Case of East Germany

    01.01.2008

    This paper addresses the question of why high unemployment rates tend to persist even after their proximate causes have been reversed (e.g., after wages relative to productivity have fallen). We suggest that the longer people are unemployed, the...

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    Escaping the Unemployment Trap - The Case of East Germany

    01.01.2007

    This paper addresses the question of why prolonged regional unemployment differentials tend to persist even after their proximate causes have been reversed (e.g., after wages in the highunemployment regions have fallen relative to those in the...

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