development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …

Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach. …

manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …

Using comprehensive data for West Germany, this paper investigates the determinants of establishment exit. We find that …