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The Long Persistence of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture: Germany 1925–2005

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2012

and drastic changes in the politic-economic environment. We thus conclude that regional entrepreneurship cultures do exist …

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Risky Earnings, Taxation and Entrepreneurial Choice: A Microeconometric Model for Germany

Fossen, Frank M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

Which role do individual income prospects play in the decision to be an entrepreneur rather than an employee? In a model of occupational choice, higher expected after-tax earnings attract people to self-employment, while more risky net earnings deter risk-averse individuals. In this paper I...

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Would a Flat Tax Stimulate Entrepreneurship in Germany?: A Behavioural Microsimulation Analysis Allowing for Risk

Fossen, Frank M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 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 …

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The Effect of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture on Economic Development - Evidence for Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2014

We use the historical self-employment rate as an indicator of a regional culture of entrepreneurship and link this … measure to economic growth in recent periods. The results indicate that German regions with a high level of entrepreneurship … a regional culture of entrepreneurship is an important resource for regional growth. …

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Entry Regulation and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Evidence from a German Natural Experiment

Rostam-Afschar, Davud - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 offers a natural experiment to asses the causal effects of this reform on the probabilities of being self-employed and transition into and out of self-employment, using cross-sections (2002-2006) of German microcensus data. This study...

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New Business Formation and Regional Development: A Survey and Assessment of the Evidence

Fritsch, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

research and draw some conclusions for entrepreneurship policy. …

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Does Quality Make a Difference?: Employment Effects of High- and Low-Quality Start-Ups

Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

discuss the implications for entrepreneurship policy that can be derived from our findings. …

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Entrepreneurship, structural change, and economic growth

Noseleit, Florian - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2011

The ability to adjust to structural change is vital to economic development, and entries can be active participants in this process. While the importance of factor reallocations for growth is widely accepted, the role of entrepreneurs in managing these reallocations is rarely, if ever, mentioned...

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The Long Persistence of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture: Germany 1925 - 2005

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

and drastic changes in the politic-economic environment. We thus conclude that regional entrepreneurship cultures do exist …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896194