International migration that is motivated by the striving for a better life is growing explosively.
Migrants and policymakers would benefit from knowing whether migrants' outcomes reflect …

Like the other chapters in this volume of the Handbook of Income Distribution (and its
predecessor), the aim of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive review of a particular …

Does the culture in which a woman grows up influence her labor market decisions once she
has had a child? And to what extent can exposure to a different cultural group in adulthood …

Since the late 1970s, wage inequality has increased strongly both in the US and Germany
but the trends have been different. Wage inequality increased along the entire wage …

In this paper we first document inequality trends in wages, hours worked, earnings,
consumption, and wealth for Germany from the last twenty years. We generally find that …

We investigate the long-run effects of government surveillance on civic capital and economic
performance, studying the case of the Stasi in East Germany. Exploiting regional variation in …

We employ German social security records to investigate intragenerational lifetime earnings
inequality and mobility of yearly earnings for 35 cohorts, starting with the birth year 1935 …

Political regimes influence the content of education and criteria used to select and evaluate
students. We study the impact of a socialist education on the likelihood of obtaining a …

This article explores the relationship between foreign language skills and individuals' labor
income in Germany, focusing on the English language. Using the 2012 and 2016 sample of …

After the breakdown of socialism in Central and Eastern Europe, the role of education
systems in preparing students for the" real world" changed. Though young people were …