Germany and the East
Teaching in East Germany in the 1980s
... various East German friends, they suggest the way “Georg” talked about the Wall Newspaper was to protect his students and even, perhaps, ...several East German conferences and present scholarly ...
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East Germany: The contested story
... in East Germany, says that a primary reason why the founding generation was left unchecked for so many decades was because his own generation, those born roughly as the same time of the nation, had ‘too ...
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The Slow Decline of East Germany
... aim at providing fertile grounds for networks of firms, or which encourage entry of key firms, around which networks can crystalize, then seem likely candidates for yielding beneficial results. But skepticism is in ...
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Wage Mobility in East and West Germany
... the East German labor market: the share of individuals changing employers declines to West Germans levels; unemployment experience still differs between the regions, but declined in East Germany; the ...
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Cold War in Germany: The United States and East Germany, 1945-1953
... the East Germans that in voting “no” they would be voting “yes” for the concept of free ...probable, East Germany’s being more firmly integrated within the Soviet ...and East Germans a “more ...
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Returns to the East: German internal migrations and local development in East Germany
... context, East Germany is being marked by demo- graphic decline and population ageing, as well as by high economic ...to East Germany are not a new phenomenon, and since the Reunifica- tion ...
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Fixed-term contracts in East and West Germany
... Building on previous research on wages of temporary workers which has found negative wage differentials for workers on fixed term contracts compared to permanent employees (Germany, Spain, France, UK), we show ...
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Popular Representation of East Germany: Whose History is It?
... own East German identity was no doubt influenced by this larger context of the struggle to name a national identity of a country that is no longer– as questions of identity always concern more than just the ...of ...
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East Germany: Transition with Unification ; Experiments and Experiences
... The federal government responded to the rise in unemployment with an unprecedented level of labor market interventions. Table 13 reports the number of participants in different labor market schemes and the unemployment ...
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East Germany overtakes West Germany: recent trends in order-specific fertility dynamics
... heritage, East and West German attitudes and values would swiftly ...that East Germany is today one of the most secularized areas in the world (Pollack ...the East stated that they had no ...
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Who has really paid for the Reconstruction of East Germany? Expected and Realized Returns on Real Estate Investments in East and West Germany in the 1990s
... in East Germany after unification has turned out to be a financial disaster in most ...the East German real estate market and that it was the general public who has borne the cost of reconstructing ...
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The intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in East and West Germany
... of East and West Germany over time, when sub- stantial migration occurred in both ...from East to West were higher educated, younger, less likely to be married, and better qualified in unobservable ...
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Why Do People Still Live in East Germany?
... in East Germany was 57% of that of West Germany, wage rates were 75% of western levels, and the unemployment rate was at least double the western rate of ...from East Germany has fallen ...
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Governing the future of a shrinking city: Hoyerswerda, East Germany
... 1 Introduction 1.1 Introduction At the end of the 1990s the notion o f ‘shrinking cities’ emerged in the context o f debates around the future o f East Germany'. A myriad o f explanatory frameworks was ...
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Employment Observatory: East Germany, No. 12, August 1994
... Poverty trends in East GermanY With economic and monetary union.. and subsequent political unifrca-.[r] ...
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Why East Germany Did Not Become a New Mezzogiorno
... and East Germany shared these ‘external’ rules of the game for the period of interest beginning with German reunification in ...by East Germany resembled those that have long plagued the ...
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Is East Germany Catching Up? A Time Series Perspective
... In this analysis we do not only investigate convergence of per capita output as it is mostly done in this line of research. We seek to get a broader picture by investigating the convergence properties of additional ...
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East-West Migration in Germany - An Analysis of Wage Differntials
... of East-West migrants is lower than that of both East German stayers and West ...later. East German stayers have the highest level of actual working hours per week with the difference to West Germans ...
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Non-marital births in East Germany after unification
... West Germany, where marriage and childbirth has been strongly “coupled”, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) displayed high rates of non-marital ...the East German legal and political institutions ...
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