There is a large and successful literature exploiting the division and re-unification of Germany as a natural … participation (FLFP) in East Germany as compared to West Germany. The starting point of the analysis is the empirical pattern that … study finds that there is an East German mark-up for social acceptance of maternal employment. An additional and novel …

merged with administrative data of the Establishment History Panel (BHP = Betriebs-Historik Panel) of the Research Data … Centre of the German Institute for Employment Research (IAB). The BHP comprises detailed information on establishment …

vary in their pattern of new firm location. In East Germany, only 5 percent of the industries reveal start-up localization … patterns beyond what natural advantages would suggest compared to 40 percent in West Germany. -- Entrepreneurship ; location …