Waking up to Reality: The Labour Market in Eastern Germany

Abstract

Attempts a stocktaking of the labour market in the collapsing economy of the former GDR, with a brief outline of recent developments. Instead of extensive theorizing, describes and quantifies characteristic features of the Eastern German labour market. Gives critical attention to training and work creation schemes as instruments of active labour market policy.

Citation

Lange, T. (1993), "Waking up to Reality: The Labour Market in Eastern Germany", Journal of European Industrial Training, Vol. 17 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/03090599310038587