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Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - 2014

employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …

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Circular movements And time away from the host country

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2003

The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat migration. This paper studies repeat or circular migration as it is manifested by the frequency of exits of migrants living in Germany, and by the number of years being away from the host country using count data models....

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Smoothed income poverty in European countries

Kuchler, Birgit; Goebel, Jan - 2003

The purpose of this paper is to obtain by combining two longitudinal perspectives a more detailed national picture of poverty in the Member States of the European Union, using the first four waves (1994 - 1997) of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). In addition to this detailed...

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E-business in service industries : usage patterns and service gaps

Preißl, Brigitte - 2003

The empirical data presented here have been derived from a company survey which has been conducted in eight service sectors across the EU. From these eight sectors four sectors have been chosen for the present analysis. The criterion for selection was comparability with respect to market...

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Determinants of entrepreneurial engagement levels in Europe and the US

Grilo, Isabel (contributor); Thurik, Adriaan R. (contributor) - 2007 - This version: October 2008

covariates to differ across the various entrepreneurial engagement levels. Data from two Entrepreneurship Flash Eurobarometer …

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Entrepreneurship in the EU : to wish and not to be

Grilo, Isabel (contributor); … - 2005

: latent and actual entrepreneurship. Latent entrepreneurship is measured by the probability of a declared preference for self … perception of lack of available financial support in the latent entrepreneurship equation. …

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Entrepreneurship capital : determinants and impact on regional economic performance

Audretsch, David B. (contributor); … - 2004

characteristic but it is also uncertain. In that perspective, the role of entrepreneurship is to take on the corresponding risk by … on both variables, entrepreneurship and economic performance, simultaneously. We find significant impact of … entrepreneurship capital on economic output. On the other hand, spatially specific entrepreneurship capital is shaped by regional …

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New firm formation by industry over space and time : a multi-level analysis

Fritsch, Michael; Falck, Oliver - 2003

We apply a multi-level approach to analyze simultaneously the effects of three groups of determinants on new firm formation: industry, location and change over time. The data is for West Germany and covers the 1983-97 period. Our analysis indicates that innovation activities and the...

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Why did self-employment increase so strongly in Germany?

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Sorgner, Alina - 2015 - This version: January 2015

Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification. Applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we find that the main factors driving these changes in the overall level of self-employment are demographic...

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Business cycles and start-ups across industries : an empirical analysis of German regions

Konon, Alexander; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - 2018

We analyze whether start-up rates in different industries systematically change with business cycle variables. Using a unique data set at the industry level, we mostly find correlations that are consistent with counter-cyclical influences of the business cycle on entries in both innovative and...

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