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The big sell : privatizing East Germany's economy
Hennicke, Moritz; Lubczyk, Moritz; Mergele, Lukas - 2020 - This version: September 11, 2020
within less than five years. We examine whether the privatization authority followed its mandate to privatize competitive … investors, and are more likely to remain in business even 20 years after leaving public ownership. The privatization agency …
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Committing to grow : privatizations and firm dynamics in East Germany
Akcigit, Ufuk; Alp, Harun; Diegmann, André; … - 2023
This paper investigates a unique policy designed to maintain employment during the privatization of East German firms …
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Privatizing disability insurance
Seibold, Arthur; Seitz, Sebastian; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2022
Public disability insurance (DI) programs in many countries face pressure to reduce their generosity in order to remain sustainable. In this paper, we investigate the welfare effects of giving a larger role to private insurance markets in the face of public DI cuts. Exploiting a unique reform...
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Die Entwicklung der Lohnstruktur im ostdeutschen Transformationsprozeß
Steiner, Viktor; Puhani, Patrick A. - 1996
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Public pensions, changing employment patterns, and the impact of pension reforms across birth cohorts : a microsimulation analysis for Germany
Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2010
We analyze the impact of changing employment patterns and pension reforms on the future level of public pensions across birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and process-produced...
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Finance, economic development and the transition : the East German case
Carlin, Wendy; Richthofen, Peter - 1995
investment. This paper shows how the combination of early privatization of the banking system plus financial restructuring of … Privatisierung des Bankensystems und der Wiederaufbau einer finanziellen Basis in den Unternehmen durch die Treuhand ein "Faule …-Kredite-Problem" in Ostdeutschland verhinderten. Die Verdienste der Banken als große Anteilseigner in privatisierten Unternehmen sind in …
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Das Wachstum junger Unternehmen : eine Bestandsaufnahme 10 Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung
Almus, Matthias - 2001
Diese Studie versucht Eigenschaften zu identifizieren, die das Beschäftigungswachstum junger deutscher Unternehmen in den neunziger Jahren beeinflussen. Um für die unterschiedlichen wirtschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen zu kontrollieren, werden die empirischen Analysen getrennt für Ost- und...
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Extent and evolution of the productivity gap in Eastern Germany
Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2003
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EU enlargement and (temporary) migration : effects on labour market outcomes in Germany
Hammer, Luisa; Hertweck, Matthias S. - 2022
EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May 2011. Taking into account that not all immigrantsstay permanently and that outmigration flows are selective, this paper classifies recent EUimmigrants into “new arrivals” and...
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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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