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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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Do Women in Highly Qualified Positions Face Higher Work-to-Family Conflicts in Germany than Men?

Busch-Heizmann, Anne - 2017

opportunities. Referring conflicting theoretical arguments, we hypothesize that in Germany - as a conservative welfare state - women …

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Gender Identity and Wives' Labor Market Outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016

Sprengholz, Maximilian - 2019

formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … couples in West (but not East) Germany diminished the wife's labor market outcomes in order to avoid situations where she … would earn more than him. However, the significance of the male breadwinner prescription seems to decline in West Germany …

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Gender Identity and Womens' Supply of Labor and Non-Market Work : Panel Data Evidence for Germany

Wieber, Anna - 2015

This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for … Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to … labor supply of full time working women, but only in Western Germany. We also show that gender identity affects the supply …

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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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Bringing Home the Money : Xenophobia and Remittances: The Case of Germany

Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - 2008

The determinants of migrants' remittances are the subject of this study based on German SOEP data (2001-2006). In contrast to previous studies we analyze the motives for remittances not only for foreigners but also for the broader group of individuals with a personal migration background. Major...

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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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On the Underrepresentation of Women in Top Boards of Large Companies (Zur Unterrepräsentanz Von Frauen in Spitzengremien Der Wirtschaft : Ursachen Und Handlungsansätze)

Holst, Elke; Wiemer, Anita - 2010

supervisory boards of Germany's largest private sector companies has created a 'male monoculture' there. In the literature …

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Occupational Sex Segregation and Management-Level Wages in Germany : What Role Does Firm Size Play?

Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - 2012

The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed-effects models. It deals with the effect of occupational sex segregation on wages, and the extent to which wage penalties for managers in predominantly female occupations are...

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