The development of the German labour market after World War II

Hansjörg Herr and Bea Ruoff

No 114/2019, IPE Working Papers from Berlin School of Economics and Law, Institute for International Political Economy (IPE)

Abstract: Labour market developments have Germany undergone two shocks: German reunification in the early 1990s, and the Hartz reforms in the early 2000s. They separated the German labour market into the traditional rather corporatist labour market segment, characterised by a high degree of coordination, and a new, less regulated labour market segment. The latter is characterised by low wages and precarious working conditions. A precariat living under conditions of high uncertainty developed. All these developments are mainly the result of legal changes in Germany - changes which, with respect to employment creation, were unneeded.

Keywords: labour markets; Germany; Hartz reforms; German unification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J50 J51 O11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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