Search Results - subject:"state socialism"

Did living standards actually improve under state socialism? : real wages in Bulgaria, 1924-1989

Morys, Matthias; Ivanov, Martin Ivanov - 2024

We challenge the view that Centrally Planned Economies functioned well until the early 1970s, delivering high economic growth and better living standards. Judged by real wages as the most widely used historical living standard indicator, only in the 1970s did Bulgarian living standards surpass...

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Management of technological innovation : high tech R&D in the GDR

Augustine, Dolores L. - In: Business history 65 (2023) 7, pp. 1177-1193

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Are the supporters of socialism the losers of capitalism? Conformism in East Germany and transition success

Deter, Max; Lange, Martin - 2022

The empirical literature is inconclusive about whether a country's democratization has a long-lasting impact on former supporters or opponents of the bygone regime. With newly available individual-level data of former residents of the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR), we analyze how...

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Are the supporters of socialism the losers of capitalism? : conformism in East Germany and transition success

Deter, Max; Lange, Martin - 2022

The empirical literature is inconclusive about whether a country’s democratization has a long-lasting impact on former supporters or opponents of the bygone regime. With newly available individual-level data of former residents of the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR), we analyze how...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013184374

Are the Supporters of Socialism the Losers of Capitalism? Conformism in East Germany and Transition Success

Deter, Max; Lange, Martin - 2021

The empirical literature is inconclusive about whether a country's democratization goes hand in hand with a reallocation of economic resources. With newly available individual-level data of former residents of the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR), we analyse how supporters and...

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The legacy of state socialism on attitudes toward immigration

Lange, Martin - 2021

life under state socialism have formed and persistently hold different attitudes toward immigration. By exploiting the … division and reunification of Germany, I estimate the influence of state socialism on attitudes toward immigration. Drawing on … rich individual panel data, I find that East Germans who lived under state socialism, are 15 percent more likely to oppose …

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