The persistent pay gap between Easterners and Westerners in Germany: A quarter‐century after reunification

Dickey, Heather; Widmaier, Alessa M.

doi:10.1111/pirs.12594

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“…For those who did not experience a transition, the distance to the poverty threshold variable was allowed to vary over time. For the United States we additionally controlled for race and for the region in Germany, because different structural inequalities lead to persistent disadvantages of non-White individuals in the US and residents in Eastern federal states in Germany (Akee et al, 2019;Baker et al, 2021;Dickey & Widmaier, 2021;Thiede et al, 2015). Results from robustness checks excluding these controls are highly consistent with those presented below.…”

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Research note: The persistent risk of in-work poverty following the birth of a first, second, and third child across the life course

Struffolino¹,

Winkle²

2023

JFamRes

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Objective: The association between a first, second, and third childbirth and in-work poverty in the short- and medium-term were assessed across age groups in the US and Germany. Background: Previous research on in-work poverty has concentrated on structural and ascriptive characteristics, while family processes - especially childbirths - received less attention. This gap was filled by adopting a processual life course approach. Method: Longitudinal data from the US and Germany were applied to between-within random effects models to estimate within-individual change in the probability of in-work poverty up to six years following a first, second, and third childbirth across age groups. Results: First, second, and third birth were associated with an immediate increase in the probability of in-work poverty (up to 10 and 5 percentage points in the US and in Germany, respectively). Among US adults aged 30 and younger probabilities increased in the medium term (from 9 to 15 percentage points for a first, 6 to 15 for a second, and 9 to 18 for a third birth), but remained unchanged for older adults in the US and all adults in Germany. Conclusion: There was no recovery in risk of in-work poverty in the medium-term following childbirth in the US and Germany. Increasing the labor market participation of adult household members via more and low-cost childcare options remains crucial. However, higher levels of income support and child benefits may be needed to avoid poverty.

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Research note: The persistent risk of in-work poverty following the birth of a first, second, and third child across the life course

Struffolino¹,

Winkle²

2023

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“…One example for such a less developed region is East Germany, which—like many countries with a history under a communist regime—lagged dramatically behind in economic development compared to West Germany ( 47 , 48 ). Germany offers an ideal setting for studying whether otherwise identical higher education institutions affect developed and less developed regions differently provided that the necessary data are available.…”

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Proxying economic activity with daytime satellite imagery: Filling data gaps across time and space

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This paper develops a novel procedure for proxying economic activity with daytime satellite imagery across time periods and spatial units, for which reliable data on economic activity are otherwise not available. In developing this unique proxy, we apply machine-learning techniques to a historical time series of daytime satellite imagery dating back to 1984. Compared to satellite data on night light intensity, another common economic proxy, our proxy more precisely predicts economic activity at smaller regional levels and over longer time horizons. We demonstrate our measure’s usefulness for the example of Germany, where East German data on economic activity are unavailable for detailed regional levels and historical time series. Our procedure is generalizable to any region in the world, and it has great potential for analyzing historical economic developments, evaluating local policy reforms, and controlling for economic activity at highly disaggregated regional levels in econometric applications.

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“…Dickey and Widmaier (2021) obtain a real wage gap of about 1.2 even after having accounted for different human capital endowments, location effects, and human capital depreciation.…”

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Local Labor Markets with Non-Homothetic Preferences

Cardullo,

Sechi

2023

SSRN Journal

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The persistent pay gap between Easterners and Westerners in Germany: A quarter‐century after reunification

Cited by 5 publications

References 26 publications

Research note: The persistent risk of in-work poverty following the birth of a first, second, and third child across the life course

Research note: The persistent risk of in-work poverty following the birth of a first, second, and third child across the life course

Proxying economic activity with daytime satellite imagery: Filling data gaps across time and space

Local Labor Markets with Non-Homothetic Preferences

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