The Caring Hand that Cripples: The East German Labor Market After Reunification (Detailed Version)
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- Snower, Dennis J. & Merkl, Christian, 2006. "The caring hand that cripples: The East German labor market after reunification (detailed version)," Kiel Working Papers 1263, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
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Keywords
German unification; labor markets; labor market traps;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
- J3 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
- P2 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MAC-2006-04-22 (Macroeconomics)
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