Wage adjustment, competitiveness and unemployment- East Germany after unification

Jahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und Statistik

Volumn 229, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 130-145

  Smolny, Werner ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competitiveness; Economics of transition; Unemployment; Wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350371726     PISSN: 00214027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-2009-2-304     Document Type: Article

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