Gibt es eine Lohnkurve in den neuen Bundesländern? (Is there a wage curve in eastern German?)

"The paper analyzes the possible existence of a wage curve in East Germany for the time period from 1998 to 2002 using panel data from the IAB-Establishment Panel, restricting the study to firms from the industrial sector. The results give room to the conclusion that there is a wage curve in East Germany. But the estimated wage elasticities exceed comparable results by a factor between 2 and 3 in absolute value." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))Lohnkurve, Lohnentwicklung, Arbeitslosigkeit, regionaler Arbeitsmarkt, IAB-Betriebspanel, Ostdeutschland, Bundesrepublik Deutschland