Dlouhodobé selhání východoněmeckého trhu práce a jeho příčiny

• Authors: Hana Křížová , Luděk Kouba

Title variants

EN

The Long-term Failure of East German Labour Market and its Causes

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

In 1990 a successful economic development of East Germany after the unification was generally predicted. Nevertheless, the real economic development has been a big disappointment. Especially the East German labour market is one of the most problematic areas and since the unification has made hardly any progress. The unemployment rate is high; too many people are working in public sector and too little in the manufacturing industry. The wages and labour productivity are at 75 % of the West German value. The aim of the paper is to describe the East German labour market development and provide explanation of its long-term failure. The first chapter has an analytical character and shows the main indicators of East German labour market in two past decades. The second chapter refers to the circumstances of the arguable transition of East Germany. The third chapter discusses the concrete causes of labour market failure. The main cause is the long-term adverse relationship between labour productivity and real wages. This problem had already been created at the beginning of the transition.

Keywords

EN

East Germany; labour market; unemployment rate; transition

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: The Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice, Czech Republic
• Journal: Littera Scripta
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 1+2
• Pages: 38-49

Dates

published

21.12.2010

Contributors

author

Hana Křížová

• Provozně-ekonomická fakulta, Mendelova univerzita v Brně

author

Luděk Kouba

• Provozně-ekonomická fakulta, Mendelova univerzita v Brně

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