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Large-Scale Labour Market Restructuring and Labour Mobility: the Experiences of East Germany and Poland

In: The European Labour Market. Regional Dimensions

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  • Vania Sena

    (University of Essex)

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A simple theoretical framework is presented, enabling the assessment of the government’s role in industrial and regional labour reallocation that follow from large-scale restructuring in the labour market. The experiences of East Germany and Poland in this regard are then compared and appraised. The main upshot is that a number of adverse incentive effects kept regional unemployment differentials high in both East Germany and Poland long after the initial transition shock. Active labour market policies (ALMPs) have apparently had little success..

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  • Vania Sena, 2006. "Large-Scale Labour Market Restructuring and Labour Mobility: the Experiences of East Germany and Poland," AIEL Series in Labour Economics, in: Floro Ernesto Caroleo & Sergio Destefanis (ed.), The European Labour Market. Regional Dimensions, edition 1, chapter 13, pages 267-286, AIEL - Associazione Italiana Economisti del Lavoro.
    • Handle: RePEc:ail:chapts:01-13
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    Keywords

    Regional Unemployment; Labour Reallocation; Structural Change; Transition from Plan to Market; Poland; East Germany.;
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    JEL classification:

    • C33 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
    • J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
    • P25 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics
    • P52 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Comparative Economic Systems - - - Comparative Studies of Particular Economies
    • R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population

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