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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners : continued losses and the partial rebound in May 2020

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

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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, … - 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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Public health insurance and entry into self-employment

Fossen, Frank M.; König, Johannes - 2015

insurance system on the entry rate into entrepreneurship. In Germany, the public health insurance system is mandatory for most … points, i.e. about a third of the average annual entry rate. The results show that the phenomenon of entrepreneurship lock …

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Do entrepreneurs really earn less?

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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Emergency aid for self-employed in the COVID-19 pandemic : a flash in the pan?

Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; Priem, Maximilian; … - 2020

The self-employed are among those facing the highest probability of strong income losses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Governments in many countries introduced support programs to support the self-employed, including the German federal government, which approved a €50bn emergency aid program...

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The impact of Covid-19 on small business owners : evidence of early-stage losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

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Sales losses in the first quarter of the COVID-19 pandemic : evidence from California administrative data

Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M. - 2021

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German financial state aid during COVID-19 pandemic : higher impact among digitalized self-employed

Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022

In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze 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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Would a flat tax stimulate entrepreneurship in Germany? : a behavioural microsimulation analysis allowing for risk

Fossen, Frank M. (contributor) - 2008

When possible income tax reforms are debated, the suspected impact on entrepreneurship is often used as an argument in … entrepreneurship based on microeconometric research have not been provided by the literature, however. This paper estimates the ex … taxation. -- Entrepreneurship ; income taxation, risk ; tax reform 2000 ; flat tax …

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