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The separation and reunification of Germany : rethinking a natural experiment interpretation of the enduring effects of communism

Becker, Sascha O.; Mergele, Lukas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

German separation in 1949 into a communist East and a capitalist West and their reunification in 1990 are commonly described as a natural experiment to study the enduring effects of communism. We show in three steps that the populations in East and West Germany were far from being randomly...

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The future of the German industrial relations model

Marsden, David - 2015

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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations

Zwick, Thomas - 2000

Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empirical evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive evidence on the incidence of the phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change...

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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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The unification bonus (malus) in postwall Eastern Germany

Beblo, Miriam - 2001

This paper presents estimates of the unification bonus for East Germans over the period 1991 to 1998. The unification bonus is defined as the discounted value of the difference between a person's actual income and his or her counterfactual real income stream forecast for a hypothetical...

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The long-term costs of government surveillance : insights from stasi spying in East Germany

Lichter, Andreas; Löffler, Max; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2019 - This version: August 2019

We investigate the long-run effects of government surveillance on civic capital and economic performance, studying the case of the Stasi in East Germany. Exploiting regional variation in the number of spies and administrative features of the system, we combine a border discontinuity design with...

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Lebensentwürfe heute : wie junge Frauen und Männer in Deutschland leben wollen ; kommentierte Ergebnisse der Befragung 2012

Allmendinger, Jutta; Haarbrücker, Julia; Fliegner, Florian - 2013

Zwischen 2007 und 2012 haben wir die Lebensentwürfe und Lebensverläufe von jungen Frauen und Männern verfolgt. Heute sind die Befragten 21 bis 34 Jahre alt. Welche Einstellungen haben sie zu Familie, Arbeit und Leben? Wie haben sich ihre Hoffnungen, Träume und Pläne über die Zeit...

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Gesetzlich garantierte "Sabbaticals" - ein Modell für Deutschland? : Argumente, Befunde und Erfahrungen aus anderen europäischen Ländern

Wotschack, Philip; Samtleben, Claire; Allmendinger, Jutta - 2017

Sabbaticals stellen ein wichtiges Element der lebensverlaufsorientierten Arbeitsmarkt und Sozialpolitik dar. Sie …, berufliche Umorientierung, Kinderbetreuung, Pflege, Erholung oder Freizeit. Derzeit können Sabbaticals in Deutschland nur im … kann. Dazu werden auf der einen Seite Probleme und Handlungsfelder in der bestehenden Regelungspraxis in Deutschland …

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Mimicking the opposition : Bismarck's welfare state and the rise of the socialists

Kersting, Felix - 2023

This paper examines the consequences of a government mimicking the policy of its competitor by studying the introduction of the welfare state in 19th century Germany. The reform conducted by the conservative government targeted blue-collar workers and aimed to reduce the success of the socialist...

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The rate of repression, allocations to consumption and communist regime collapse

Brezis, Elise S.; Schnytzer, Adi - 1996

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