TY  - JOUR
AU  - Krueger,Alan B.
AU  - Pischke,Jorn-Steffen
TI  - A Comparative Analysis of East and West German Labor Markets: Before and After Unification
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 4154
PY  - 1992
Y2  - August 1992
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4154
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4154.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Alan B. Krueger
Industrial Relations Section
Firestone Library
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Tel: 609/258-4046
Fax: 609/258-2907
E-Mail: akrueger@princeton.edu

Jorn-Steffen Pischke
CEP
London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: 44-20-7955-6509
Fax: 44-20-7955-7595
E-Mail: s.pischke@lse.ac.uk
M1  - published as Alan B. Krueger, Jorn-Steffen Pischke. "A Comparative Analysis of East and West German Labor Markets: Before and After Unification," in Richard B. Freeman and Lawrence F. Katz, Editors, "Differences and Changes in Wage Structures" University of Chicago Press (1995)

AB  - In 1988, the wage distribution in East Germany was much more compressed than in West Germany or the U.S. Since the collapse of Communism and unification with West Germany, however, the wage structure in eastern Germany has changed considerably. In particular, wage variation has increased, the payoff to education has decreased somewhat, industry differentials have expanded, and the white collar premium has increased. Although average wage growth has been remarkably high in eastern Germany, individual variation in wage growth is similar to typical western levels. The wage structure of former East Germans who work in western Germany resembles the wage structure of native West Germans in some respects, but their experience-earnings profile is flat.
ER  -