Hartz 4 reforms by Schroeder killed the recovering working class in the East. High employment by slashing wages and working conditions. Followed by mass migration from eastern Europe, followed by the migrant flood of the last 3 years. Social democracy doesn't have good cred there
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So, what keeps the people in question from going where the jobs are? Over all Germany has a dire need for qualified workers. And you can make a very decent wage in the trades. Mass migration from eastern Europe is also a myth. We need migrant workers.
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German economy very different in many ways. The skills base in the East is poor, until 1991 they had a soviet education that stifled innovation. I saw it first hand. The gov has overfocussed on infrastructure instead of upskilling. Hence mini-jobs have taken over.
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Wrong, wrong, wrong. The cause of this was the process of de-industrialisation in the 90's. Thousands of factories closed down in the East, the region lost its industrial base. There was definitely no mass emigration from Eastern Europe. Eastern Europeans weren't allowed to work
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In Germany until 2014. Hartz 4 was a bad idea from the start, but it alone is not the reason for the rise of the far right in East Germany. Source: I'm an East German man in my 40's who left because things were desperately bad in the former East.
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