The situation on the labour market in East Germany is difficult since the beginning of economic transition in the early … 90's. The reasons for such a situation are complex. The implementation of single currency, the collapse of East Germany … persistently high unemployment rate are supported by microeconomic reasons, too. The unification of Germany was not perceived as a …

countries in the period 2000-2010. We compare 5 major EU countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) with …

) the situation in Germany, it claims a cultural gap between traditional unions and employees in the expanding precarious …

markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …

Support of training has been one of the most important instruments of active labor market policy in East Germany. This … maintenance. After describing the labor market developments in East Germany, we illustrate the evaluation problem. Then, we …

regional labour reallocation that follow from large-scale restructuring in the labour market. The experiences of East Germany … kept regional unemployment differentials high in both East Germany and Poland long after the initial transition shock …