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Thinking with Gaps between Coal and Post-Coal in an Eastern German Mining District

open access: yesLagoonscapes
By the mid-2030s, the Central German Mining District in eastern Germany is expected to see the end of brown coal mining. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores how the anticipated coal phase-out is entangled with the legacy of the ...
Schiedlowski, Felix
doaj   +1 more source

Inequality of Educational Opportunity in East and West Germany: Convergence or Continued Differences?

open access: yesSociological Science, 2019
Diversity in education systems, and broader political and economic conditions, are commonly credited with international variation in inequality of educational opportunity (IEO).
Markus Klein   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does Regime Change Affect Intergenerational Mobility? Evidence from German Reunification 

open access: yes, 2021
This study uses the natural experiment of German reunification and a difference-in-differences approach to test whether the political and economic transition in East Germany in 1990 affected intergenerational occupational and educational mobility ...
Grätz, Michael,, Grätz, Michael
core   +1 more source

Accelerating the Roll‐Out of Modular Plants: From Engineering and Approval to Operation of Energy‐Efficient Modular Plants

open access: yesChemie Ingenieur Technik, EarlyView.
In the ENPRO REUNION project, a manufacturer‐independent modular plant concept was demonstrated by commissioning a pilot plant that integrated modules from different vendors and by expanding the module pool to include extraction and crystallization units.
Laura Marsollek   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

“They looked German, albeit with even tighter pants and uglier shoes, but there was something different about them”: The Function of East and West Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall in Paul Beatty’s Slumberland

open access: yesCurrent Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2012
The essay examines Paul Beatty’s novel Slumberland“ (2008) as representative for a still neglected field of American literary expression: American literary representations of Germany after 1989 which address issues of Germany’s former division ...
Elisa Schweinfurth
doaj   +1 more source

Peculiarities of transformation processes in East Germany [PDF]

open access: yesЭкономика региона, 2011
The process of socio-economic transformation of East German lands after the German reunification in 1990 is analyzed, the term "transformation" in frames of planned and market economies is defined.
Marion Dathe
doaj   +1 more source

Visitor‐I and dual worldmaking: Queer museology between Tuntenhaus and the Schwules Museum

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the visitor‐I as an embodied protocol for analyzing how queer archival exhibitions choreograph perception, affect, and learning, and it uses dual worldmaking as a bounded heuristic to name the relation between lived worldmaking in the Tuntenhaus squat and curatorial worldmaking in the museum, and I argue that the visitor ...
Melike Atmanoğlu
wiley   +1 more source

Security of Germany and the US Military Presence: A “Comfortable” Occupation or an Allied Solidarity?

open access: yesМеждународная аналитика, 2019
The article is devoted to the influence of the American military presence in Germany on the foreign policy strategy of the German leadership in the matter of ensuring the security of Germany.
Artem Sokolov
doaj   +1 more source

German Mittelstand discovers BRIC: A Survey of Product Strategies of German ‘Hidden Champions’ in China and India

open access: yes, 2014
An empirical survey conducted at the Hamburg University of technology (TUHH) shows the BRIC markets are perceived to be of high and growing strategic importance by German “Hidden Champions”.
Buse, Stephan   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Striking a Bargain: Narrative Identification of Wage Bargaining Shocks

open access: yesJournal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Wage markup shocks, an important driver of business cycles, are hard to pin down. We quantify the importance of exogenous variation in wage bargaining power, one source of those shocks, from German minimum wage introduction episodes and strikes. This disciplines the impulse responses of unemployment and output, and sharpens inference for other
Žymantas Budrys   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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