and Western Germany. Descriptive analyses have shown that most firms experience only small positive or negative employment … when separatingEastern and Western Germany as well as usingdifferen t definitions of fast growingfirms. Moreover, the …

Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Entwicklung junger Unternehmen in den neuen Bundesländern. Diese werden …-innovativen Unternehmen im Verarbeitenden Gewerbe, die zwischen 1992 und 1996 gegründet wurden. Auf der Basis theoretischer Erklärungsansätze … werden zahlreiche Einflußfaktoren abgeleitet, die einen potentiellen Beitrag zur Erklärung des Wachstums junger Unternehmen …

roofers to remain employed in the sector in eastern Germany deteriorated along the entire wage distribution. Such employment … wage ; Germany ; capital-labour substitution ; labour-labour substitution ; scale effect …

-specified time limits, are viewed as one important reason for the persistently high level of unemployment in Germany by many … typically assumed by contributors to recent discussions on the potential labour market effects of welfare reforms in Germany …

The paper concentrates on the question whether the low level of productivity in East Germany can be explained by … human capital endowments; in fact, the effective stock on human capital in East Germany is lower than in West Germany when … younger cohorts. This impedes a fast convergence in productivity between East and West Germany. …