Search Results - subject:"Eastern Germany"

Changing conditions, persistent mentality : an anatomy of East German unhappiness, 1990-2016

Biermann, Philipp; Welsch, Heinz - 2019

We decompose the persistent satisfaction gap between East and West Germany into effects of objective circumstances and subjective mentality, the latter presumed to be a legacy of communist socialization. Using the methodology proposed by Senik (2014) in a cross-national context, we capture...

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Undoing gender with institutions : lessons from the German division and reunification

Lippmann, Quentin; Georgieff, Alexandre; … - 2019

Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created a culture that has undone the male breadwinner norm and its consequences. Since reuniﬁcation, East Germany still differs from West Germany not only by a higher female...

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Refugee-specific government aid, institutional embeddedness and child refugees' economic success later in Life : evidence from post-WWII GDR refugees

Black, Sandra E.; Liepmann, Hannah; Remigereau, Camille; … - 2019

We exploit a unique historical setting to investigate how refugee-specific government aid affects the medium-term outcomes of refugees who migrate as children and young adults. German Democratic Republic (GDR) refugees who escaped to West Germany between 1946 and 1961 who were acknowledged to be...

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Thirty years after the Berlin Wall came down : economic transition completed, but structural deficit remains

Ragnitz, Joachim - In: ifo DICE report 17 (2019) 3, pp. 22-27

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After Eastern German state elections 2019 : Germany facing serious politico-economic problems

Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2019

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Paradoxe Aushandlungen von Migration im Diskurs um die Leipziger Eisenbahnstraße

Wiest, Karin; Kirndörfer, Elisabeth - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung 77 (2019) 6, pp. 583-600

Verschiebungen bzw. wechselseitige Bedingtheiten von neuen gesellschaftlichen Ein- und Ausschlüssen im Prozess der Internationalisierung und Diversifizierung von Städten genauer zu betrachten, ist Ziel dieses Beitrags. Mithilfe der Paradoxie im Sinne eines heuristischen Zugangs werden...

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Zwischennutzungen in unterschiedlichen urbanen Kontexten : die Beispiele Leipzig und Dessau-Roßlau

Rink, Dieter; Görbing, Marie - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung 77 (2019) 6, pp. 601-615

Zwischennutzungen spielen seit 15 bis 20 Jahren eine wichtige Rolle in Forschung und Planung. Zwischennutzungen wurden früher negiert oder als Randerscheinung abgetan, heute wird ihnen eine zentrale Rolle im Umgang mit den Folgen von Schrumpfung zugesprochen. Im Beitrag wird anhand eines...

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Land Grabbing in Ostdeutschland: Ursachen, Auswirkungen, Widerstand

Brunner, Jan - 2019

Since 2006 investors of different sectors have invested increasingly in farms and land in Eastern Germany. This … Eastern Germany has provoked resistance by young, small and middle farmers, and their organisations. Though, the resistance … large farms and crises like the financial crisis are important factors that foster the phenomenon. Land grabbing in Eastern …

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Undoing gender with institutions : lessons from the German division and reunification

Lippmann, Quentin; Georgieff, Alexandre; … - 2019

Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created a culture that has undone the male breadwinner norm and its consequences. Since reunification, East Germany still differs from West Germany not only by a higher female...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992872

Economic Development after German Unification and Implications for Korea

Jeong, Hyung-Gon; Heimpold, Gerhard; Yoon, Deok Ryong; … - 2019

There are three overarching themes in this study, which is subdivided into eight chapters. The first theme covers macroeconomic shocks occurring right after the unification of the two Germanys and the socio-economic changes and integration processes that followed. Chapter 2 discusses the...

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