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Privatization in East Germany
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1992
This paper is a critical review of east German privatization policy. It is argued that the restitution of old property …
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Macroeconomic Aspects of German Unification
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1991
insufficient claims on state owned enterprises. The centralized privatization of state owned enterprises, which bypasses the East … German population, is seen as a major obstacle to quick recovery, and an alternative privatization procedure is discussed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475424
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Committing to Grow : Privatizations and Firm Dynamics in East Germany
Akcigit, Ufuk; Alp, Harun; Diegmann, André; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper investigates a unique policy designed to maintain employment during the privatization of East German firms …
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Privatization in East European Transformation
Fischer, Stanley - 1991
Privatization of state assets is an essential step to the creation of a viable private sector in the formerly socialist … privatization, with emphasis on Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. Progress in privatizing small firms has been rapid in several … East European countries, but privatization of large firms has been slow, with most success to date in Hungary …
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Germany's Economic Unification : An Assessment after Ten Years
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2000
A political miracle occurred when Germany was reunited, and at first glance an economic miracle has followed. Real incomes in the east have now reached the western level, and investment per capita has been much higher than in the west. However, every third deutschmark spent in the east has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471183
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Determinants of Non-employment and Unemployment Durations in East Germany
Hunt, Jennifer - 1999
Following monetary union with the west in June 1990, the employment rate for east German 18-54 year olds fell from 89% to 73% in six years, and the decline for women was considerably larger. This employment fall is possibly the worst of any European transition economy, yet one might have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471666
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Wage Equalization and Regional Misallocation : Evidence from Italian and German Provinces
Boeri, Tito - 2019
Italy and Germany have similar geographical differences in productivity - North more productive than South in Italy; West more productive than East in Germany - but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages based on nationwide contracts that allow for limited local wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479565
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Inequality Trends for Germany in the Last Two Decades : A Tale of Two Countries
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2009
In this paper we first document inequality trends in wages, hours worked, earnings, consumption, and wealth for Germany from the last twenty years. We generally find that inequality was relatively stable in West Germany until the German unification (which happened politically in 1990 and in our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463591
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The Slow Decline of East Germany
Uhlig, Harald - 2008
Fifteen years after German reunification, the facts about slow regional convergence have born out the prediction of Barro (1991), except that migration out of East Germany has not slowed down. I document that in particular the 18-29 year old are leaving East Germany, and that the emigration has...
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Good bye Lenin (or not?) : The Effect of Communism on People's Preferences
Alesina, Alberto - 2005
Preferences for redistribution, as well as the generosities of welfare states, differ significantly across countries. In this paper, we test whether there exists a feedback process of the economic regime on individual preferences. We exploit the "experiment" of German separation and...
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