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The Cultural Roots of Firm Entry, Exit, and Growth

Erhardt, Katharina; Haenni, Simon - 2021

Can culture explain persistent differences in economic activity among individuals and across regions? A novel measure of cultural origin enables us to contrast the entrepreneurial activity of individuals located in the same municipality but whose ancestors lived just on opposite sides of the...

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Greasing the wheels of entrepreneurship?: the impact of regulations and corruption on firm entry

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin - 2007

The paper investigates whether the impact of regulations on entrepreneurship depends on corruption. We first test whether regulations robustly deter firm entry into the markets. Our results show that some regulations are indeed important determinants of entrepreneurial activity. Specifically,...

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Survival Strategies Under Sanctions : Firm-Level Evidence from Iran

Cheratian, Iman; Goltabar, Saleh; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2022

Given the importance of firm strategic management in time of crises, this study investigates Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) survival strategies during the international sanctions against Iran. Using data from a questionnaire of 486 firms between December 2019 to September 2020, we...

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Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2015

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not...

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The Impact of Fintech Startups on Financial Institutions' Performance and Default Risk

Haddad, Christian; Hornuf, Lars - 2021

We examine the impact of fintech start-ups on the performance and default risk of traditional financial institutions. We find a positive relationship between fintech start-up formations and incumbent institutions’ performance for the period 2005–2018 and a large sample of financial...

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Entry Barriers and the Labor Market Outcomes of Incumbent Workers : Evidence from a Deregulation Reform in the German Crafts Sector

Lergetporer, Philipp - 2019

We study the labor market outcomes of a deregulation reform in Germany that removed licensing requirements to become …

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Are Business Start-Ups Liquidity Constrained? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Allocation of Housing Wealth in East Germany

Fuchs, Tobias - 2019

Are entrepreneurs liquidity constraint? Using quasi-random housing wealth variation resulting from communist era decisions, we argue yes, as we find that wealthier East Germans are more likely to become self-employed after reunification. In the literature, no such strong relationship was found...

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Age-Specific Entrepreneurship and PAYG Public Pensions in Germany

Heer, Burkhard - 2020

We present new empirical evidence on the distribution of earnings, income and wealth among entrepreneurs in Germany. We … Germany does not help to improve its fiscal sustainability, and only an increase in the retirement age to 70 years will help …

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Dissecting Between-Plant and Within-Plant Wage Dispersion - Evidence from Germany

Baumgarten, Daniel - 2019

Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important … the sources of the recent slowdown in German wage inequality and compare the results for West Germany to the ones for East … Germany. We disentangle the relative contribution of each single variable to the rise in wage dispersion using recentered …

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Biased Expectations and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from German Survey Data and Implications for the East-West Wage Gap

Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2023

income in East Germany. The bias difference in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap …

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