From Reunification to Economic Integration: Productivity and the Labor Market in Eastern Germany

By Michal Burda, J. Hunt. 2001

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Do the best go west? An analysis of the self-selection of employed East-West migrants in Germany (2007, unknown): “At first glance, this literature seems to confirm the hypothesis that “those who emigrate tend to be better educated and possibly better workers in unobservable ways than stayers” (Burda and Hunt, 2001, p. 65).”
The Caring Hand that Cripples: The East German Labor Market after Reunification (Detailed Version) (2006, unknown): “Burda and Hunt (2001) and Jennifer Hunt (2000) write that movers are on average eleven to 24Own calculations.”
Need, Merit, or Self-Interest: What Determines the Allocation of Aid? (2011, unknown): “For the period 1990-2000 Burda and Hunt (2001) state that the transfers to Eastern Germany were in excess of DM 1.5 trillion.”
Migration and Wage‐setting: Reassessing the Labor Market Effects of Migration* (2011, background): “In addition, a large number of East-West migrants moved to Western Germany before appearing as employed or unemployed in the IABS, e.g., as students (Burda and Hunt, 2001; Hunt, 2006).”
Additionality of public R&D grants in a transition economy (2006, background): “Labour productivity is still significantly lower in Eastern Germany than in Western Germany: unemployment is much higher and the value of regional production falls short of regional consumption (cf., e.g., Burda and Hunt 2001).”
Comparative Politics and the Synthetic Control Method (2014, unknown): “As Burda and Hunt (2001, 1) put it, “it is difficult to find a more dramatic episode of economic dislocation in peacetime during the twentieth century than that associated with the reunification of Germany.””