economy of east germany
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Analysis of the macroeconomic impact of the CSF on the economy of East Germany research project supported under EU contract EFRE No. 98.02.17002 Development of a model for assessing the macroeconomic impacts of structural funds in East Germany
The authors' main objective in this project was to study the options available to East Germany as it faces into the need to design policies that will take it from the immediate post transition situation towards the EU average standard of living. After the initial transition, East Germany had a relative standard of living roughly comparable to that of the EU cohesion countries immediately prior to their entry into the EU. To reach the EU average, it must, therefore, grow for a sustained period at a rate higher than the EU average, or become permanently dependent on subvention from the former West Germany. Our modelling activities are designed to provide tools to facilitate an exploration of the options and likely outcomes.
John Bradley Edgar Morgenroth Gerhard Untiedt
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The Feed Livestock Economy of East Germany: Prospects to 1980
Thomas A Vankai
159256940
Between East and West? East Germany's Employment System in a Dynamic Comparison
This article investigates how working conditions in East Germany differ from those in West Germany as well as from those among its Central and Eastern European (CEE) neighbors (Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland) Building on repeated International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) survey data (1989, 1997, 2005, and 2015) the author compares key elements of East Germany's employment system with West Germany and its CEE neighbors over time. The results show that, initially, East Germany's conditions resembled a logic reflecting the need for economic survival that was distinct from West Germany and from the emerging general patterns of its CEE neighbors. By 2015, East and West German working conditions nearly converge. This article develops and extends the employment system approach to address situations of transformation and substantial institutional change, and contributes to the ongoing debate on regional diversity in Germany's economy.
ILR Review
Stefan Kirchner
14979809
The Curse and Blessing of Training the Unemployed in a Changing Economy: The Case of East Germany After Unification
Abstract We analyse the effects of government sponsored training for the unemployed conducted during East German transition. For the microeconometric analysis, we use a new, large and informative administrative database that allows us to use matching methods to address potential selection bias, to study different types of programmes and to observe labour market outcomes over eight years. We find strong evidence that, on average, the training programmes under investigation increase long term employment prospects and earnings. However, as an important exception, the longer training programmes are not helpful for their male participants. At least part of the explanation for this negative result is that caseworkers severely misjudged the structure of the future demand for skills.
M Lechner Ruth Miquel Conny Wunsch
133408353
Analysing the impact of the CSF on an EU regional economy: The case of East Germany
John Bradley Edgar Morgenroth Gerhard Untiedt
168815795
East Germany: Integration to a Well Established Environment
This chapter deals with the role of private landlords in East Germany since 1949. In the German Democratic Republic, the private landlord's economic life was made very difficult by the state, and their market share gradually declined. With the German reunification, complex questions about integrating the former socialist housing industry into a market economy were raised, including property rights, rent adaptation, and modernisation of the housing stock. Integration into the new economic order did not proceed without frictions. The interplay of hefty subsidies and a shrinking population has led to a huge excess of housing and economic difficulties. On the other hand, the private landlords were able to significantly increase their market share after 1990 due to restitutions and new residential development.
Stefan Kofner
158984911
Trust Law in the Process of Reunifying East and West Germany How a legal concept foreign to German law was the solution to merge a socialist and a capitalist economy between 1989 and the present
In the run up to the Re Unification of the East and West Germany in the 1990's the governments faced a problem, how do we integrate two political systems without causing a collapse of the economy and livelihoods. In order to counter the aforementioned the East German government initiated the Treuhandanstalt, a piece of legislation that would govern over State Owned Enterprises in order to ready them for either investors to take over or for liquidation. In so doing the similarities between the Anglo Saxon Trust and the Germanic Treuhand is of extreme interest, namely; in what manner did the German government design the Treuhandanstalt? Was it focussed on the Germanic tradition, of does it draw heavily from the common law trust? This paper focusses on the similarities and differences between the two concepts of ownership.
Tim A Beijer
153518249
The G.D.R: The history, politics, economy, and society of East Germany
Eberhard Schneider
152490392
The quest for freedom and stability political choices and the economic transformation of East Germany 1989 1991
The economic transformation of the East German economy initiated in 1990 and its socioeconomic consequences remain to the present day one of the most controversial topics in assessing the key decisions that led to German reunification. The fact that East Germany underwent the most dramatic depression in German economic history1 has had a long lasting impact not only on the economic and fiscal development in Germany as a whole but also on the political psyche, especially in East Germany. For East Germans, the short term economic consequences of reunification were the opposite of what they had been hoping for when the pace to unification was accelerated in early 1990. Those hopes were not only the results of illusions and ignorance as far as the economic mechanisms of capitalism were concerned.2 They had been nurtured as well by the promises made by West German politicians seeking the support of the East German electorate in the politically pivotal year of 1990, with the first free elections in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) of March 18 and the first all German elections of December 2.
Wolfgang Seibel
156067117
East German Productivity And The Transition To The Market Economy Comparisons With West Germany And Northern Ireland
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