This paper analyses the development of labour productivity of a sample of comparable small and medium-sized enterprises in eastern and western Germany in the period 1992-2002. It emerges that the surviving eastern German enterprises were able to raise their efficiency to just under 87 % of the...

Abstract Der vorliegende Beitrag analysiert, mit welchen flexibilisierenden Maßnahmen ein Sample 22 kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen aus dem produzierenden Sektor auf die wirtschaftliche Krise 2008-2009 reagiert hat. Dabei zeigt sich, dass die von der Krise betroffenen Betriebe vorhandene...

"This paper analyses the development of labour productivity of a sample of comparable small and medium-sized enterprises in eastern and western Germany in the period 1992-2002. It emerges that the surviving eastern German enterprises were able to raise their efficiency to just under 87 % of the...