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 …

We use a linked employer-employee data set from Germany to estimate the wage effect of foreign-affiliates in East and … West Germany. In addition, the wage effects of the large number of West German affiliates which are located in East Germany … in West Germany, where it amounts to 2.7 %. …

spatial distribution of firms in Germany is used to check the predictions and estimate the parameters of the model. This is …

We compare two leading regional innovation systems (RIS) in East Germany with two RIS in West Germany of about the same …