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

Fritsch, Michael - 2011

This paper investigates the impact of new firms' quality on the magnitude of their employment effects. Our results clearly show that the quality of start-ups, measured by their affiliation with sectors and innovative industries, strongly influences the direct and the overall employment...

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Has German Business Income Taxation Raised Too Little Revenue over the Last Decades?

Bach, Stefan - 2017

This study presents comprehensive macroeconomic measures on the revenue from business taxation in Germany. A comparison …

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The Top Tail of the Wealth Distribution in Germany, France, Spain, and Greece

Bach, Stefan - 2015

We analyze the top tail of the wealth distribution in Germany, France, Spain, and Greece based on the Household Finance … of household wealth in Germany jumps up from 24 percent in the HFCS alone to 33 percent after top wealth imputation. For …

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Effective Taxation of Top Incomes in Germany, 1992-2002

Bach, Stefan - 2014

We analyze the taxation of top personal incomes in Germany on the basis of an integrated data file of individual tax …

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A Wealth Tax on the Rich to Bring Down Public Debt? Revenue and Distributional Effects of a Capital Levy

Bach, Stefan; Beznoska, Martin; Steiner, Viktor - 2011

The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining ground in several OECD countries. We evaluate the revenue and distributional effects of a one-time capital levy on personal net wealth that is currently on the German political...

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The Impact of Losses on Income Tax Revenue and Implicit Tax Rates of Different Income Sources : Evidence from Microsimulation Using Tax Statistics for Germany

Bach, Stefan; Buslei, Hermann - 2009

relevant for Germany in view of the heavy losses from renting. Using micro data from tax statistics we analyze the income tax …

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What Drives the Productive Efficiency of a Firm? The Importance of Industry, Location, R&D, and Size

Badunenko, Oleg; Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2008

This paper investigates the factors that explain the level and dynamics of manufacturing firm productive efficiency. In our empirical analysis, we use a unique sample of about 39,000 firms in 256 industries from the German Cost Structure Census over the years 1992-2005. We estimate the...

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Business Cycles, Unemployment and Entrepreneurial Entry : First Evidence from Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Pijnenburg, Katharina - 2013

Germany reveals that start-up activities are positively influenced by unemployment rates and that the cyclical component of …

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

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2012

We investigate the persistence of levels of self-employment and new business formation in different time periods and under different framework conditions. The analysis shows that high levels of regional self-employment and new business formation tend to be persistent for periods as long as 80...

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Why Did Self-Employment Increase so Strongly in Germany?

Fritsch, Michael - 2015

Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany …

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