Post-Unification Wage Growth in East Germany
利用德国社会经济面板数据，分析1990年货币联盟后东德工人实际月工资中位数在六年内增长83%的原因，发现低工资工人、女性和低教育者在初期获益最大，而后期女性和高教育者获益更多，工作转换对工资增长的贡献有限。
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.