Post-Unification Wage Growth in East Germany
dc.contributor.author | Hunt, Jennifer | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-08-01T15:31:55Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-08-01T15:31:55Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1998-11-01 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | RePEc:wdi:papers:1998-304 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/39688 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Following monetary union with west Germany in June 1990 the median real monthly wage of prime age east German workers rose by 83% in six years. I use the German Socio-Economic Panel data to investigate the determinants of this wage growth and some of its implications. For the 1990-1991 period I find that the biggest gainers were low-wage workers generally, and women and the less educated specifically. In the 1991-1996 period the biggest gainers were women and the better educated. Job changing rates were high: a majority of workers had changed jobs by 1996. The return to job changing, particularly changing to a job in the west, was high in 1990-1991 but fell greatly in the later period, so that overall only 18% of wage growth was due to job changing within the east, and 7% to east-west job changing. | en_US |
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dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 304 | en_US |
dc.title | Post-Unification Wage Growth in East Germany | en_US |
dc.type | Working Paper | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Economics | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Business | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/39688/3/wp304.pdf | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | William Davidson Institute (WDI) - Working Papers |
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