💼 After the Berlin Wall fell, East Germany changed fast—but many workers lost social status.
Robert Schall @eui-eco.bsky.social studies how Treuhand-led privatisations hit labour markets. More closures meant steeper status drops, even as wages rose.
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Do inequalities in the labor market persist even after people have achieved social mobility? My research on the 'class pay gap' in Germany, conducted together with David Wittekopf, aims to answer this question. Find out more here:
