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Who Starts a Business and Who Is Self-Employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rusakova, Alina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …

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Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Spatial Disparities: Divisions and Changes of Self-employment and Firms

Bögenhold, Dieter; Fachinger, Uwe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

entrepreneurship and asks for its overlapping with categories of self-employment and of innovation. Although these terms cover only … partially the same meanings, political discourse often equals the slogan to foster entrepreneurship and innovation with an … firms without further employees. An equation of entrepreneurship with innovation activities and in-creasing self …

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Entrepreneurship Capital and Economic Performance

Audretsch, David B.; Keilbach, Max - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004

capital. In this paper we introduce a new factor, entrepreneurship capital, and link it to output in the context of a … production function model. This paper explains what is meant by entrepreneurship capital and why it should influence economic … output. A production function model including several different measures of entrepreneurship capital is then estimated for …

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Self-Employment - a Way to End Unemployment?: Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data

Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into self-employment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period...

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Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurs in Germany: Characteristics and Earnings Differentials

Block, Joern; Wagner, Marcus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

indicate a need to distinguish between the two groups in entrepreneurship policy-making. The results also show that commonly …

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Capital allocation in the Greek regions

Liargovas, Panagiotis G.; Daskalopoulou, Irene F. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The present study analyses the location of new economic activities in the 51 Greek prefectures (NUTS III level) as the outcome of agglomeration economies and other factors that are acknowledged as determinants of new firm location. Cross-section data referring to the location choices of firms in...

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Rationality of Self-Employment: Do Female and Male Entrepreneurs Differ?

Bögenhold, Dieter; Fachinger, Uwe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

It is not clear, whether changes in self-employment are primarily driven by the necessity to take part in the labour market, or if those activities reflect new modes of labour market integration revealing new opportunities and markets, which are especially due in wide parts to the service and...

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Why Did Self-Employment Increase So Strongly in Germany?

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Sorgner, Alina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 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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Do Entrepreneurs Really Earn Less?

Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

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

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