The aim of the foregoing analysis is to demonstrate, in which way situations of equilibrium and disequilibrium of the labour market on the basis of a combined macro-economic labour supply and demand system can be analysed. Especially, the analysis concerns the confrontation of labour supply and demand, differentiated according to education and occupation categories, in so-called "Manpower and Education ...
In the preceding analysis, actual wages and salaries of 1968 in West-Berlin are compared with those of given areas in West Germany. A comparison of average incomes for the year 1968 reveals that the level of wages and salaries in West Berlin lay 2 per cent above the average for the overall economy, but 8 per cent below the average for Hamburg. The wage and salary position of West-Berlin relative to ...
In the course of the rapid and momentum-gathering economic upswing in 1968 the far-reaching effects of the recession could be overcome with less difficulty than had been anticipated. Conditions at the beginning of 1969 thus appeared quite favorable for a strong expansion of the economy. Wages and salaries, which in the first half of 1968 contributed only moderately to demand growth, had also gradually ...