Friday, June 15, 2007

Once a Commie, Always a Commie

OK, so reunification of Germany started in 1990. How long does it take the East to get its act together?

16%???? And this is after the Hartz V reforms. I wish there was a chart showing long term unemployment rates between the West and the East.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Long-term unemployment (defined as being unemployed one year or longer) is at 38.8% of all unemployed persons in West Germany, according to the Statistisches Bundesamt. Eastern Germany has 41%, so it's not a big difference after all.

You can look up the figures at this page:

http://www.destatis.de/jetspeed/portal/cms/Sites/destatis/Internet/DE/Navigation/Statistiken/Arbeitsmarkt/ArbeitsmarktdatenBA/ArbeitsmarktdatenBA.psml

Captain Capitalism said...

danke!