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Employment Policy in Transition

The Lessons of German Integration for the Labor Market

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Editors:
  1. Regina T. Riphahn

    1. University of Munich, Munich, Germany

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  2. Dennis J. Snower

    1. Department of Economics Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK

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  3. Klaus F. Zimmermann

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

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  • International experts draw lessons from the German transition process and compare the German experience with other transition countries

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  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

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 294-302
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About this book

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?

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Employment Policy in Transition

  • Book Subtitle: The Lessons of German Integration for the Labor Market

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

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56560-1

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-41166-6Published: 26 October 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-62508-4Published: 20 November 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-56560-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 302

  • Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Labor Economics, Political Science

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