Employment Policy in Transition

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VI

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2. Employment Policy in Transition: The Lessons of German Integration for the Labor Market

   1. Introduction

      • Regina T. Riphahn, Dennis J. Snower, Klaus F. Zimmermann

      Pages 1-7

   2. The Post-Unification German Labor Market

      • Holger Bonin, Klaus F. Zimmermann

      Pages 8-30

3. Analysis of the German Labor Market Problem

   1. Wages and Structural Adjustment in the New German States

      • Michael Burda, Michael Funke

      Pages 31-51

   2. East/West-Wage Rigidity in United Germany

      • Karl-Heinz Paqué

      Pages 52-82

   3. Early Retirement in East and West Germany

      • Axel Börsch-Supan, Peter Schmidt

      Pages 83-102

   4. Employment Effects of Newly Founded Businesses in East Germany

      • Thomas Hinz, Rolf Ziegler

      Pages 103-124

   5. Earning Dynamics in the East German Transition Process

      • Johannes Schwarze, Gert G Wagner

      Pages 125-139

4. Policy options

   1. Eastern Germany Since Unification: Wage Subsidies Remain a Better Way

      • David Begg, Richard Rortes

      Pages 140-153

   2. Economic Efficiency and Social Acceptance of Wage Subsidies

      • Henning Klodt

      Pages 154-171

   3. Revenue-Sharing Subsidies as Employment Policy: Reducing the Cost of Stimulating East German Employment

      • Dennis J. Snower

      Pages 172-191

   4. Investment Wages and Capital Market Imperfections

      • Gerhard Illing

      Pages 192-207

   5. Public Sector Sponsored Continuous Vocational Training in East Gemany: Institutional Arrangements, Participants, and Results of Empirical Evaluations

      • Martin Eichler, Michael Lechner

      Pages 208-253

   6. Active Labor Market Policies in Central Europe: First Lessons

      • Hartmut Lehmann

      Pages 254-293

5. Back Matter

   Pages 294-302

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A historically unique experiment is about to enter its second decade - German unification. Early hopes for a rapid and smooth economic transformation soon turned out to be overly optimistic. Despite massive financial transfers, the political promise of a "blooming landscape" remains a vision. Actual developments have left deep scars on the labor market, and the effects will be felt for decades to come. Was this outcome to be expected, perhaps even inevitable? What went wrong, and what were the available options? Or is the current state of Eastern German labor market in fact better than is commonly assumed?

• Arbeitsmarktpolitik
• German Labor Market
• German Unification
• Labor Market
• Labor Market Policies
• Transition
• Wiedervereinigung
• deutscher Arbeitsmarkt

• University of Munich, Munich, Germany

  Regina T. Riphahn

• Department of Economics Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK

  Dennis J. Snower

• Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany

  Klaus F. Zimmermann

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