This paper investigates the employment growth of small and medium-sized firms that survived the transformation process … betriebliche Beschäftigungsentwicklung in klein- und mittelständischen Betrieben in Ostdeutschland. Dabei ist festzustellen, dass …

points relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the … most important determinant of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than half of the … gender gap in this hazard rate, since low earners were more likely to leave employment, and were disproportionately female …