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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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The Polish labour market in transition
Steiner, Viktor; Kwiatkowski, Eugeniusz - 1995
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Job destruction, job creation and unemployment in transition countries : what can we learn?
Faggio, Giulia (contributor) - 2007
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The Polish labour market in transition
Steiner, Viktor; Kwiatkowski, Eugeniusz - 1995
between employment, unemployment and non-participation in the labour force at the individual level are derived from panel data …-state or 'equilibrium' unemployment rates for various groups of the labour force. It is shown that these differ greatly between …
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Labour reallocation during transition : the case of Poland
Bell, Una Louise - 2001
could, over the medium term, result in relatively high levels of unemployment. Unless mobility is stimulated, European …
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Duration and calendar time dependence of the exit rate out of unemployment in Belgium : is it true or spurious?
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2000
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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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East-West German wage convergence : how far have we got?
Steiner, Viktor - 1997
for the dramatic decline in employment and the unprecedented increase in unemployment in the east German economy. …
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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
, resulting in lower income, higher exposure to unemployment, and lower self-employment. …
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Do public works programs work? : some unpleasant results from the East German experience
Kraus, Florian - 1998
We analyze the effectiveness of public works programs (PWP, Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahmen) in east Germany as measured by their effects on individual future reemployment probabilities in regular jobs. These are estimated by discrete hazard rate models on the basis of individuallevel panel data....
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