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Entry Regulation and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Evidence from a German Natural Experiment

Rostam-Afschar, Davud - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 offers a natural experiment to asses the causal effects of this reform on the probabilities of being self-employed and transition into and out of self-employment, using cross-sections (2002-2006) of German microcensus data. This study...

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What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does It Pay?: Native Men, Turks, and Other Migrants in Germany

Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs...

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Exploring the knowledge filter: how entrepreneurship and university-industry relations drive economic growth

Mueller, Pamela - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2005

Knowledge is recognized as a crucial element of economic growth in addition to physical capital and labor. Knowledge …, identify, and exploit knowledge depends on the existing knowledge stock and the absorptive capacity of actors such as employees … at firms and researchers at universities and research institutions. The existing knowledge stock might not be …

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Das Gründungsgeschehen in Dresden, Rostock und Karlsruhe: eine Betrachtung des regionalen Gründungspotenzials

Henning, Tobias; Mueller, Pamela; Niese, Michael - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2006

This paper compares the structure and the development of new firm formation activity in three German regions. The two East German regions, Dresden and Rostock, show significantly higher start-up rates than the West German region Karlsruhe. The analysis of entry cohorts reveals that not only the...

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