Research Catalog

Title

Economic transition, unemployment and active labour market policy : lessons and perspectives from the East German Bundesländer / Corrine Nativel.

Author

Nativel, Corinne

Publication

Edgbaston, Birmingham : University of Birmingham Press, c2004.

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Details

Description

x, 192 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book explores the rationale for an Active Labour Market Policy and shows that despite its merits, it delivered mixed outcomes. Though it helped East German citizens and communities enjoy relative social peace and a measure of economic regeneration, it imposed a heavy cost on the German State and was illsuited to respond to the enduring spatial deficiencies of the East German territory. The author applies her analysis of the German experience to the outlining of employment policy reforms to the 'social market economy' and proposes some broader reflections around the notion of 'social contract' in the context of economic and welfare restructuring." "This is a major contribution to the literature on economic change and labour market restructuring over and above the case-study of Germany."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

The new Germany in context

Uniform Title

New Germany in context

Subject

• Geschichte 1990-1999
• Since 1990
• Manpower policy > Germany
• Welfare recipients > Employment > Germany
• Germany > Economic conditions > 1990-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographic references (p.[169] - 190) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Map of Germany -- Introduction : great transformations -- 1. Unemployment, the labour market and the state -- 2. Equity, efficiency and the role of active labour market policy -- 3. Transformation unemployment in the East German Bundeslander -- 4. institutional architecture of ALMP in the federal Republic of Germany -- 5. From 'policy of the first hour' to the 'second labour market' -- 6. ALMP in a regional context : a case study of Saxony -- 7. Constraints and opportunities facing the new German economy -- 8. Employment and welfare restructuring : prospective avenues -- Conclusion : responding to labour market transitions -- App. 1. Spending on ALMP according to types of measures (in million DM), East Germany, 1991-1997 -- App. 2. Key data for East Germany's economic 'catching-up' (1991-1999).

ISBN

190245913X

LCCN

^^2005415289

OCLC

• 47776555
• SCSB-12872083

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library