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Comment on the presentation by Johannes Hirschmeier

Kocka, Jürgen - In: Social order and entrepreneurship: proceedings of the …, (pp. 49-52). 1977

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Großunternehmen und der Aufstieg des Manager-Kapitalismus im späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert: Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich

Kocka, Jürgen - In: Rapports: Vol. 2. Section chronologique, XVe Congrès …, (pp. 599-612). 1980

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Taking a Second Chance: Entrepreneurial Restarters in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2002

Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might be termed 'stigmatisation of failure': taking a second chance to build one's own firm after failing as a self-employed is said to be much more difficult here than in other...

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Are Nascent Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-All-Trades? A Test of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data

Wagner, Joachim - 2003

In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of …. This paper contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing Lazear's hypothesis using a large recent …

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Are Young and Small Firms Hothouses for Nascent Entrepreneurs? Evidence from German Micro Data

Wagner, Joachim - 2004

Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship … economic importance for entrepreneurship of work experience in a firm that is both young and small. …

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Testing Lazear's Jack-of-All-Trades View of Entrepreneurship with German Micro Data

Wagner, Joachim - 2002

This paper tests the theory recently put forward by Edward Lazear that individuals with competence in many skills should have a higher probability of being self-employed than others. The empirical results for Germany support this jack-of-all-trades view.

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The Role of the Regional Milieu for the Decision to Start a New Firm: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Wagner, Joachim; Sternberg, Rolf - 2002

Although comprehensive data from official statistics on new firm formation and entrepreneurs starting a new business are lacking in Germany, we know from empirical studies that entry rates differ between regions, and that the propensity to become an entrepreneur is influenced by...

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The Impact of Risk Aversion, Role Models, and the Regional Milieu on the Transition from Unemployment to Self-Employment: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2002

The focus of this paper is on the choice of the unemployed between becoming an entrepreneur or not. It contributes to the literature by empirically investigating two hitherto neglected issues: What is the impact of risk aversion and personal contact with a role model in shaping the decision to...

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Who becomes an entrepreneur? Labor market prospects and occupational choice

Poschke, Markus - 2008

start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that the relationship between entrepreneurship and … in the market, and that returns to entrepreneurship have a much larger cross-sectional variance than returns to wage work …. The paper shows that these facts can be explained in a model of occupational choice between wage work and entrepreneurship …

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Entrepreneurs out of necessity': A snapshot

Poschke, Markus - 2010

Entrepreneurs out of necessity identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey are a sizeable group across …

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