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 …

out both for West Germany - a mature market economy - and for East Germany, which operated under a centrally planned …

SME in Western and East-ern Germany are compared because these regions are very different in their supply of public R … German small and medium?sized firms (SME). Special attention is paid to the role of public R&D subsidies. For this purpose …&D funding. It turns out that Western German SME are financially constrained in their R&D activities by both internal and …

sources on small and medium sized enterprises (SME) in Thuringia. …

markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …

unionization has become more and more similar in eastern and western Germany in the period 1992 to 2000. The originally high level … of union density in eastern Germany has dropped below that of western Germany, and union membership has been falling … individuals' probability of union membership have converged over time between western and eastern Germany. After an assimilation …

while their risk of becoming unemployed was lower. In particular in eastern Germany, joining firms that were older than six …

In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly …