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East German labour market in transition: segmentation and increasing disparity
Author(s) -
Grünert Holle,
Lutz Burkart
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2338.1995.tb00720.x
Subject(s) - german , promotion (chess) , market segmentation , economics , transition (genetics) , labour economics , market integration , market economy , domestic market , international trade , political science , macroeconomics , biochemistry , chemistry , archaeology , gene , microeconomics , politics , law , history
The employment system of the former GDR–like that of other socialist countries–could be seen as an aggregation of ‘internal labour markets’ with long term employment, internal promotion and little external mobility. Consequently the rapid integration of the East German economy into the western market economy has led to structural problems of the labour market which combined with and intensified the general effects of the sharp decrease in the demand for labour.