This paper investigates the employment growth of small and medium-sized firms that survived the transformation process …

German Socio-Economic Panel. It concentrates on exit from unemployment into employment. Estimation results of a discrete …This paper studies the impact of unemployment benefits on unemployment duration for East Germany using data from the … rate on the hazards becomes weaker the longer people are unemployed. The threat of periods of benefit sanction could …

estimate employment for three skill categories of blue collar workers. Employment elasticities are uniformly higher in the east …