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AIDS and Dualism: Ethiopia's Burden under Rational Expectations
Bell, Clive; Koukoumelis, Anastasios - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
An AIDS epidemic threatens Ethiopia with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback to … possible in view of Ethiopia's poverty and high background adult mortality, it does cause a permanent, downward displacement of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012078
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INTERNATIONALIZATION OF GERMAN COMPANIES INTO THE CHINESE MARKET - AN EVENT STUDY ON THE CONSEQUENCES ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE FROM A RBV PERSPECTIVE
Bausch, Andreas; Tri, Duc Linh Van - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
After its economic opening in 1978, China has become more and more attractive for foreign direct investments and has developed into a strong internationalization target for other countries. This study analyzes the internationalization-performance relationship of German companies entering the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005785939
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The Skill Balancing Act: Determinants of and Returns to Balanced Skills
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Noseleit, Florian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Entrepreneurs are found to have balanced skill sets and most have worked in small firms before starting their own … entrepreneurs using a rich data set on the applied skills of individuals. This data set allows us to construct an indicator that … of entrepreneurs remains the largest. The impact of human capital formation on skill balance also varies among employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009131067
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Personality Traits, Self-Employment, and Professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We investigate the effect of broad personality traits-the Big Five-on an individual's decision to become self- employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of self-employment varies considerably across professions, we also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008690101
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In the name of my parents: Entrepreneurship and the intergenerational transmission of values
Wyrwich, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Mounting empirical evidence shows that kids of self-employed parents are very likely to become entrepreneurs themselves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010686909
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Innovative start-up patenting: a new approach towards identification and determinants
Wolf, Tina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
There already exists broad literature investigating small and innovative firms in many respects. However, there have been few attempts to assess this group of firms' propensity to patent or its patenting activities. This paper intends to fill that gap. By applying a new approach to account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010661183
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Entrepreneurship,Growth, Regional Growth Regimes
Fritsch, Michael; Kublina, Sandra - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
suggests that entrepreneurship is a key driver of economic development, and one that has long-run effects. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011143965
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Who Starts a Business and who is Self-Employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2011, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421461
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Methods of analyzing the relationship between new business formation and regional development
Fritsch, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The paper reviews the approaches that have been followed for analyzing the effect of new business formation on regional development. It begins with an outline of how start-ups may affect regional development. In dealing with different ways of empirically assessing these effects, I particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010616574
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The Geography of Creative People in Germany revisited
Fritsch, Michael; Stützer, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
It has been argued that creativity is an important source of regional growth. This paper investigates the geography of people in creative occupation in Germany. The population share of the creative class as well as of bohemians and artists is relatively high in larger cities, but smaller places...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010616575