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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

The Caring Hand that Cripples: The East German Labor Market after Reunification

  • Dennis J. Snower
  • Christian Merkl
American Economic Review
vol. 96, no. 2, May 2006
(pp. 375–382)
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Citation

Snower, Dennis, J., and Christian Merkl. 2006. "The Caring Hand that Cripples: The East German Labor Market after Reunification." American Economic Review, 96 (2): 375–382. DOI: 10.1257/000282806777212314

JEL Classification

  • E24 Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital
  • J21 Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
  • J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
  • J64 Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
  • R23 Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics