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Opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship : two components of business creation

Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M. - 2018

A common finding in the entrepreneurship literature is that business creation increases in recessions. This counter-cyclical pattern is examined by separating business creation into two components: "opportunity" and "necessity" entrepreneurship. Although there is general agreement in the...

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Firm wage premia, industrial relations, and rent sharing in Germany

Hirsch, Boris; Müller, Steffen - 2018

This paper investigates the influence of industrial relations on firm wage premia in Germany. OLS regressions for the …

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Do startups provide employment opportunities for disadvantaged workers?

Fackler, Daniel; Fuchs, Michaela; Hölscher, Lisa; … - 2018

-employee data for Germany that allow to take the complete employment biographies of newly hired workers into account. The results …-geber-Arbeitnehmer-Daten für Deutschland, die eine Berücksichtigung der gesamten Erwerbsbiografien von neu eingestellten Arbeitnehmern ermöglichen …

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The regional effects of a national minimum wage

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Roth, Duncan; Seidel, Tobias - 2018 - Version: February 2018

We estimate the spatially differential effects of a nationally uniform minimum wage that was introduced in Germany in … 2015. To this end, we use a micro data set covering the universe of employed and unemployed individuals in Germany from …

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The German productivity paradox : facts and explanations

Elstner, Steffen; Feld, Lars P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2018

Despite massive digitization efforts, the German economy has experienced a marked slowdown in its productivity growth. This paper analyzes the reasons behind this disconcerting development. A major factor is the turnaround of the labor market that commenced around 2005. The successful...

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Dissecting between-plant and within-plant wage dispersion : evidence from Germany

Baumgarten, Daniel; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Lehwald, Sybille - 2018

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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In search of leading indicators of economic activity in Germany

Bandholz, Harm; Funke, Michael - 2001

In this paper we present two new composite leading indicators of economicactivity in Germany estimated using a dynamic …

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Business cycle asymmetries and the labor market

Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2016 - First version: April 2015. This version: February 2016

This paper shows that the matching function and the Beveridge curve in the United States exhibit strong nonlinearities over the business cycle. These patterns can be replicated by enhancing a search and matching model with idiosyncratic productivity shocks for new contacts. Large negative...

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Consumption, wealth and business cycles in Germany

Hamburg, Britta (contributor); Hoffmann, Mathias (contributor) - 2005

This paper studies the long-run relationship between consumption, asset wealth and income in Germany, based on data … these three variables from their common trend signal changes in asset prices, we find that for Germany they predict changes … Germany than in the Anglo-Saxon economies and the share of publicly traded equity in household wealth is much smaller in …

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Exporting firms do not pay higher wages, ceteris paribus : first evidence from linked employer-employee data

Schank, Thorsten (contributor); Schnabel, Claus (contributor) - 2004

18 Studies, die sich auf Daten aus 20 hochentwickelten, sich entwickelnden und weniger entwickelten Ländern stützen, zeigen, dass die Durchschnittslöhne in exportierenden Firmen höher liegen als in nichtexportierenden Firmen aus gleichen Branche und Region. Die Existenz dieser Lohnzuschläge...

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