@techreport{NBERw6878,
 title = "Post-Unification Wage Growth in East Germany",
 author = "Jennifer Hunt",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "6878",
 year = "1999",
 month = "January",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w6878",
 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.},
}