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Are High-Growth Firms Overrepresented in High-Tech Industries?

Daunfeldt, Sven-Olof; Elert, Niklas; Johansson, Dan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015

It is frequently argued that policymakers should target high-tech firms, i.e., firms with high R&D intensity, because such firms are considered more innovative and therefore potential fast-growers. This argument relies on the assumption that the association among high-tech status, innovativeness...

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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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Self-Employment Dynamics across the Business Cycle: Migrants versus Natives

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or self-employed. We are interested in the dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment are absorbing states. However,...

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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the …

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Evasive Entrepreneurship and Institutional Change

Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

In this paper, we argue that evasive entrepreneurship is an important source of innovation in the economy. Institutions … evasive entrepreneurship can be both productive and unproductive/destructive, its dynamic character is more important because … evasive entrepreneurship may be able to prevent economic development from being stifled by existing institutions during times …

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What determines entry? Evidence from Sweden

Elert, Niklas - Ratioinstitutet - 2012

In the literature concerning the geography of new firm formation, explanatory variables pertaining to industrial organization and political economy are seldom considered. Such variables were thus included when investigating what conditions influenced entry of Swedish limited liability firms...

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