ABSTRACT

Table 3.2 Federal start-up funding for East German welfare schemes, 1990-91

State pensions Unemployment benefit Unemployment benefit

1990 Quly-December) 1990 Quly-December) 1991 Qanuary-December)

750 2,000 3,000

Throughout the text, English language quotes from the GG follow the translation by Axel Tschentscher (Tschent~cher, 2002).