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dc.contributor.authorMaier, Charles S.en
dc.date.accessioned2010-10-13-
dc.date.accessioned2011-12-15T13:16:21Z-
dc.date.available2011-12-15T13:16:21Z-
dc.date.issued2010-
dc.identifier.isbn978-92-9230-297-9en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/54024-
dc.description.abstractThe former German Democratic Republic underwent a unique post-communist transition because it was absorbed into the wealthy Federal Republic of Germany and has received massive subsidies. Nonetheless, serious difficulties have persisted, including higher unemployment, rapid deindustrialization, and greater political loyalty to the successor parties of the former Communists than in the West. The reasons for these phenomena remain debated, but seem to the legacy of concealed structural weakness in the old GDR, perhaps the one-to-one conversion of East German savings into Deutschmarks, and the commitment to elevate wage levels in the East close to those prevailing in the FRG.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aThe United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) |cHelsinkien
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aWIDER Working Paper |x2010/60en
dc.subject.jelP20en
dc.subject.jelP31en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordcurrency conversionen
dc.subject.keyworddeindustrializationen
dc.subject.keywordmarket economyen
dc.subject.keywordtransitionen
dc.subject.keywordTreuhanden
dc.subject.keywordunemploymenten
dc.titleThe travails of unification: East Germany's economic transition since 1989-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn63660022Xen
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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