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The World Economy, Volume 45, Issue 6, Page 1773-1829, June 2022., 2022 Abstract In this paper, we revisit questions about the onshore employment effects of firms that conduct foreign direct investment (FDI) in countries with substantially lower average wages. Our results derive from the use of rich administrative records on the universe of employees in German multinational enterprises (MNEs) that were active in the Czech ...
Konstantin Koerner +2 more
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Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 2020 This article examines the crisis-ridden path from planned to market economy in Eastern Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. By analyzing the history of the highly debated Treuhandanstalt—the so-called Trust Agency and the main actor of the ...
Marcus Böick
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The Political Quarterly, Volume 91, Issue 3, Page 614-622, July–September 2020., 2020 Abstract This article sheds light on one of the key developments in recent German politics and relates it to the broader debate on the electoral success of the far right. The rise of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD, Alternative for Germany) is also a story about Germany’s internal political divide three decades after reunification, as the party ...
Manès Weisskircher
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Does low‐pay persist across different regimes? Evidence from German Unification
Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 413-440, July 2020., 2020 Abstract Using German administrative data, we study across‐regime low‐pay persistence in the context of an economic transformation process. We first show that individuals' initial allocation to the post‐unification low‐wage sector was close to random in terms of market‐regime unobservables.
Nicole Gürtzgen +1 more
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Zeithistorische Forschungen, 2015 After 1989, commentators heralded the ultimate triumph of the capitalist market over its last major opponent, the socialist plan. However, crisis-ridden economic transformations in the former GDR and Eastern (Central) Europe were still to come.
Marcus Böick
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Neue Politische Literatur, 2020 Die Gründung der Treuhandanstalt jährt sich 2020 zum 30. Mal. Anhaltend hohe Arbeitslosigkeit, Produktivitätsdefizite und eine beispiellose demografische Entwicklung im Zuge vereinigungsbedingter (Arbeits-)Migration bieten Anlass genug, sich mit der ...
A. Leipold
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Utrecht Law Review, 2018 In the run-up to the Re-Unification of the East and West Germany in the 1990's the governments faced a problem, how do we integrate two political systems without causing a collapse of the economy and livelihoods.
Tim A. Beijer
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Polscy zarządcy powierniczy majątku żydowskiego - zarys problematyki.
Zagłada Żydów, 2005 Zagadnienie tzw. powiernictwa, czyli zarządzania mieniem skonfiskowanym podczas wojny na terenie Generalnej Guberni (GG) nie doczekało się jak dotąd żadnych naukowych opracowań.
Jan Grabowski
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Under What Conditions Do Rules-Based and Capability-Based Management Modes Dominate?
Risks, 2018 Despite real changes in the work place and the negative consequences of prevailing hierarchical structures with rigid management systems, little attention has yet been paid to shifting management modes to accommodate the dynamics of the external ...
Lukas Michel +3 more
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American Ethnologist, Volume 52, Issue 4, Page 446-458, November 2025.Abstract For years the decrepit Hotel Lunik in Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany, a city founded in 1950 as a model of socialist urbanism, has been widely understood as “a trace of capitalism.” Once a central landmark, Lunik was sold to a real estate speculator in 2006 and left to decay.
Samantha Maurer Fox
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