Der Zerfall der Beschäftigungsstrukturen der DDR 1989 – 1993

Lutz, Burkart; Grünert, Holle

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“…The starkest difference concerns labor market transition after 1989: East Germans experienced dramatically high rates of unemployment after 1989. The dismantling of the socialist industry and agriculture sector and the privatization of the "people's property" left around a million people unemployed in just a little more than a year after the fall of the Berlin wall (Lutz and Grünert 1996). Counting in those who were working in government-subsidized welfare jobs, around 4 million workplaces were lost in the first years after 1989 (Lutz and Grünert 1996).…”

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“…The dismantling of the socialist industry and agriculture sector and the privatization of the "people's property" left around a million people unemployed in just a little more than a year after the fall of the Berlin wall (Lutz and Grünert 1996). Counting in those who were working in government-subsidized welfare jobs, around 4 million workplaces were lost in the first years after 1989 (Lutz and Grünert 1996). The unemployment rate in East Germany hovered at around 20 percent in the mid-1990s; in the longer run, around a third of the population became "extremely vulnerable to unemployment" (Diewald, Solga, and Goedicke 2006;Mayer 2001).…”

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The Temporal Logic of Deservingness: Inequality Beliefs in Two Postsocialist Societies

Hilmar

2019

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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Employing a cultural sociological approach, this article asks how individuals from two postsocialist societies articulate principles of justice by providing narrative accounts of other peoples’ perceived choices and social mobility trajectories after 1989. Using data from an interview study of 67 respondents from former East Germany and the Czech Republic, I present two interrelated findings: First, as respondents negotiate the tension between the principles of merit and need, they show widespread support for the idea that individuals are personally responsible for their fate despite the legacy of egalitarianism commonly associated with postsocialist societies. Second, individuals can effectively challenge the principle of merit by using a certain type of eventful knowledge about economic change after 1989 that is articulated morally but points to the limits of choice. The article distinguishes different notions of deservingness and contributes to the current debate on the links between culture and economics.

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The Temporal Logic of Deservingness: Inequality Beliefs in Two Postsocialist Societies

Hilmar

2019

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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“…The employment decline and its variation across sectors were driven by three main phenomena (Lutz and Grünert, 1996). First, employment declined due to migration to West Germany, early retirement schemes, and layoffs of workers with low performance who had been guaranteed jobs in the GDR.…”

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The impact of a negative labor demand shock on fertility – Evidence from the fall of the Berlin Wall

Liepmann

2018

Labour Economics

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How does a negative labor demand shock impact individual-level fertility? I analyze this question in the context of the East German fertility decline after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Exploiting differential pressure for restructuring across industries, I find that throughout the 1990s, women more severely impacted by the demand shock had more children on average than their counterparts who were less severely impacted. I argue that in uncertain economic circumstances, women with relatively more favorable labor market outcomes postpone childbearing in order not to put their labor market situations at further risk. This mechanism is relevant for all qualification groups, including high-skilled women. There is some evidence for an impact on completed fertility.

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“…However, there is some evidence that internal labor markets also played a role in the former East German labor market (e.g. Grünert and Karl 1997: 57ff., Lutz andGrünert 1996, Sackmann andWingens 1996: 14). This mechanism should be more responsive to career interruptions, i.e., promotion in the firm should then depend on seniority and job performance.…”

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Educational attainment and first births: East Germany before and after unification

Kreyenfeld

2000

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There is a general belief that female educational attainment has a delaying effect on the age at first birth. In this paper we argue that the validity of this hypothesis relies on at least three prerequisites. First, that child rearing and employment is incompatible. Second, that a withdrawal from the labor market harms labor market upward mobility. Third, that child rearing responsibilities are shared according to traditional gender roles. Using data from the German SocioEconomic Panel (SOEP), we analyze the impact of educational attainment on first birth risks in East and West Germany before and after unification. A major result is that, compared to West Germany, the impact of educational attainment on first birth risks is less strong in East Germany. This also applies to the period after unification. We attribute this to the relative abundance of public day care in the East.

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Der Zerfall der Beschäftigungsstrukturen der DDR 1989 – 1993

Cited by 10 publications

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The Temporal Logic of Deservingness: Inequality Beliefs in Two Postsocialist Societies

The Temporal Logic of Deservingness: Inequality Beliefs in Two Postsocialist Societies

The impact of a negative labor demand shock on fertility – Evidence from the fall of the Berlin Wall

Educational attainment and first births: East Germany before and after unification

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