Das Beschäftigungssystem der DDR: Funktionsweise, Entwicklungstendenzen und Folgewirkungen

Grünert, Holle; Bernien, Maritta; Lutz, Burkart

doi:10.1007/978-3-663-09623-8_1

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“…Mobility of labor between occupations and firms was not desired since it interfered with central planning and increased costs, and low labor mobility led to low residential mobility. Second, a dramatic shortage of housing depressed residential mobility further (Grünert 1996;Grünert, Bernien, and Lutz 1997;Grundmann 1998;Wolle 1998: 182-88;Uunk, Mach, and Mayer 2005). We therefore think it highly unlikely that the ignorability assumption is violated by spatial sorting.…”

Section: Threats To the Ignorability Assumptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Opium for the Masses: How Foreign Media Can Stabilize Authoritarian Regimes

Kern

Hainmueller²

2009

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In this case study of the impact of West German television on public support for the East German communist regime, we evaluate the conventional wisdom in the democratization literature that foreign mass media undermine authoritarian rule. We exploit formerly classified survey data and a natural experiment to identify the effect of foreign media exposure using instrumental variable estimators. Contrary to conventional wisdom, East Germans exposed to West German television were more satisfied with life in East Germany and more supportive of the East German regime. To explain this surprising finding, we show that East Germans used West German television primarily as a source of entertainment. Behavioral data on regional patterns in exit visa applications and archival evidence on the reaction of the East German regime to the availability of West German television corroborate this result.

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Section: Threats To the Ignorability Assumptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Opium for the Masses: How Foreign Media Can Stabilize Authoritarian Regimes

Kern

Hainmueller²

2009

Polit. anal.

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“…One argument is that the East Germans have been apathetic, paternalistic and lacking in initiative since 1989. According to the proponents of this theory, the East Germans failed to grasp new and emerging chances, and waited until they became unemployed before making any occupational moves (Grünert et al 1996). Those who take this line of argument see this behavioural pattern as a legacy of the GDR, and refer to the lack of competencies needed for an economic upturn in East Germany (Heinz 1996: 292).…”

Section: European Societiesmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…35 6. Grünert et al (1996) argue that the East German employment system was, to a large extent, organized around internal labour markets. In contrast, empirical analyses carried out in the framework of the East German Life Course Project to some extent substantiate the counter-argument, namely that external labour market mobility ( rm shifts) was not rare in the GDR (Huinink and Solga 1994;Uunk et al 1998;Zühlke and Goedicke 2000), though the extent of internal labour market mobility was larger in the GDR than in the Federal Republic.…”

Section: European Societiesmentioning

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Back to labour markets - who got ahead in post-communist societies after 1989?

Diewald¹,

Solga²,

Goedicke³

2002

European Societies

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This article explores the restructuring of the employment system in post-communist societies, taking East Germany after 1989 as an example. Due to the German Democratic Republic's 'accession' to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1990, the transitional process here was a particular one. More than other post-communist transformations, the East German case is seen as a prototype of a 'simple' adaptation process. In this study we explore whether such a simple adaptation process actually occurred, with the allocation mechanisms used in West Germany being transferred to East Germany. We investigate how different kinds of human resources accumulated and exhibited before 1989 helped to promote individual career mobility after 1989. One of the central and surprising results of the analyses is that individual assets (such as mobility competencies acquired under the state-socialist regime) were of only secondary importance for success and failure in the uni ed labour market.

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Transitions to Post-Communism in East Germany: Worklife Mobility of Women and Men between 1989 and 1993

1999

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This article deals with one major aspect of the transformation of former socialist societies: the reallocation of persons in the occupational and class structure via individual mobility processes. In East Germany, this transformation occurred within the unique context of the legal, political and economic incorporation of the former German Democratic Republic into the Federal Republic of Germany. Theoretically, we develop hypotheses on the society of origin, the society of destination, and the transformation process itself as well as hypotheses on the determinants of success and failure in the transition process. Empirically, we rely on the East German part of the German Life History Study (GLHS), a representative study of the East German women and men born in 1929-31, 1939-41, 1951-53 and 1959-61. Our analyses focus especially on the transition process between 1989 and 1993. Among the unexpected results are the high degree of occupational stability among those able to remain in the labour market and the high rate of downward mobility combined with a low rate of unemployment among former managers and affiliates of the Communist regime.

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Das Beschäftigungssystem der DDR: Funktionsweise, Entwicklungstendenzen und Folgewirkungen

Cited by 3 publications

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Opium for the Masses: How Foreign Media Can Stabilize Authoritarian Regimes

Opium for the Masses: How Foreign Media Can Stabilize Authoritarian Regimes

Back to labour markets - who got ahead in post-communist societies after 1989?

Transitions to Post-Communism in East Germany: Worklife Mobility of Women and Men between 1989 and 1993

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