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On tax evasion, entrepreneurial generosity and fungible assets

Bittschi, Benjamin; Borgloh, Sarah; Moessinger, Marc-Daniel - 2016

We estimate the effects of income from various sources on charitable giving using administrative German income tax data … remaining income sources. 2) An entrepreneurship researcher would conclude that business owners are more generous than employees …

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The productivity effects of worker replacement in young firms

Murmann, Martin - 2017

Existing management research has so far dealt with the consequences of labor turnover for established firms, but has not addressed its effect on young entrepreneurial businesses. In this paper I assess, both theoretically and empirically, the productivity effects of worker replacement in young...

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The growth and human capital structure of new firms over the business cycle

Brixy, Udo; Murmann, Martin - 2016

employment in incumbent firms. This questions the effectiveness of policies that promote entrepreneurship to fight crises. We … complement prior research that is mostly based on aggregate data by analyzing cyclical effects at the firm level. Using new … linked employer-employee data on German start-ups we show that under constant human capital of the firms' founders …

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Returns to private equity : idiosyncratic risk does matter!

Müller, Elisabeth - 2009

Owners of private companies often invest a substantial share of their net worth in one company, which exposes them to idiosyncratic risk. For US companies we investigate whether owners require compensation for lack of diversification in the form of higher returns to equity. Exposure to...

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Modeling German unification in a disequilibrium framework

Winker, Peter; Smolny, Werner; Radowski, Daniel - 1999

concerned are data availability for the eastern part of Germany and structural changes within the behavioural equations after …

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Existenzgründerpotentiale unter Arbeitsuchenden : empirische Evidenz auf der Basis des Mikrozensus

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 1999

In April 1995, 5.3 million people in Germany were on the lookout for a new job opportunity. 177,000 or nearly 3% of those were searching for an opportunity to get self-employed. In this study the determinants of the lookout for selfemployment in lieu of wage work are investigated separately for...

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Berufliche Weiterbildung und Existenzgründung

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reize, Frank - 1999

self-employed and job movers. The analysis is based on a cross section of individual data for West Germany in 1991 …

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Formelle und informelle berufliche Weiterbildung und Verdienst bei Arbeitnehmern und Selbständigen

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reize, Frank - 2000

Investitionen in Weiterbildung werden typischerweise durch die erwartete Zunahme individueller Fähigkeiten motiviert. In dieser Arbeit wird untersucht, von welchen sozio-ökonomischen und beruflichen Merkmalen die Teilnahme an formeller und informeller beruflicher Weiterbildung abhängt, und...

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Leaving unemployment for self-employment : a discrete duration analysis of determinants and stability of self-employment among former unemployed

Reize, Frank - 2000

The paper investigates the determinants and the success of self-employment among former unemployed. Self-employment has become an important re-employment opportunity during the last decade due to increasing subsidies. The econometric analysis is carried out using discrete hazard rate models on...

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FIML estimation of a bivariate probit selection rule : an application on firm growth and subsidisation

Reize, Frank - 2001

This study applies a full information maximum likelihood (FIML) estimator of the sample selection model with bivariate selection rule for the investigation of the impact of subsidised firm foundation from unemployment on employment growth of the firm. The empirical analysis is based on the ZEW...

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