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

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

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

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 …

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 …

Innovationssystem insbesondere durch kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) getrieben wird, liegt ein besonderer Fokus der Analyse auf … results for East Germany. Given the fact that the East German innovation system is particularly driven by small and medium … sized enterprises (SME), we put a special focus on the effectiveness of the R&D subsidies for this latter subgroup. Here no …

European countries (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy and the UK). The results suggest that in almost all cases, the inclusion of …

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. …