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“Entrepreneurs out of Necessity”: A Snapshot
Poschke, Markus - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
“Entrepreneurs out of necessity” identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey area sizeable group across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360595
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Informal Workers Across Europe:Evidence from 30 Countries
Hazans, Mihails - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
The European Social Survey data are used to analyze informal employment at the main jobin 30 countries. Overall, informality decreases from South to West to East to North. However,dependent work without contract is more prevalent in Eastern Europe than in the West,except for Ireland, the UK and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009347585
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Regional growth regimes revisited - the case of West Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2004
characterized by different growth regimes in which new firms and entrepreneurship assume different roles and accordingly lead to … durch unterschiedliche Wachstumsregime gekennzeichnet sind in denen Gründungen und Entrepreneurship unterschiedliche Rollen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009207023
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The effect of new firm formation on regional development over time
Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2004
In our analysis of the impact of new firm formation on regional employment change we identified considerable time lags. We investigated the structure and extent of these time lags by applying the Almon lag model and found that new firms can have both a positive and a negative effect on regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009207045
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Direct and indirect effects of new business formation on regional employment
Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela; Weyh, Antje - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2004
We investigate the impact of new business formation on regional employment. The main effects occur after a considerable time lag. Obviously, a large part of the effect is not due to job creation by the newcomers but rather is of indirect nature. This implies that a large part of the debate about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009207052
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The persistence of regional new business formation-activity over time: assessing the potential of policy promotion programs
Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2005
entrepreneurship. These factors also seem to be responsible for changes in the level of regional new business formation. In addition … Innovationsaktivitäten und von Entrepreneurship stellen geeignete Ansatzpunkte für eine Politik dar, die auf eine Steigerung der …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009207056
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Perceptions, Expectations, and Entrepreneurship:The Role of Extreme Events
Brück, Tilman; Llussá, Fernanda; Tavares, José - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extremeevents – natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions ofentrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues – such as fear of failure instarting a business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360568
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Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality:New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
Economic Psychology on “Personality and Entrepreneurship”.The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the … entrepreneurship research.... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353909
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Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions,and the Great Recession
Fairlie, Robert - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
opportunities in the wage/salary sectorleaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdataavailable … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed lighton this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a majordeterminant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase theprobability that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360519
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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs toCreate Larger Firms?
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types ofentrepreneurship across …. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in55 countries for 2001-2006, applying a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360546