* 5 Results enter search term Search Reset filter Suchfilter Content Type Publications (5) Publication Type Working Paper (3) Journal Article (2) Experts Christian Merkl (4) Dennis J. Snower (4) Joachim Ragnitz (1) Date Last Month Last Year Select Period start date to end date Sort by Relevance Date Aktive Filter Tags: East Germany Remove all filters Publication 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... Publication 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... Publication 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... Publication 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... Publication 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...
Publication 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...
Publication 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...
Publication 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...
Publication 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...
Publication 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...