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The Link Between R&D, Innovation and Productivity : Are Micro Firms Different?

Baumann, Julian - 2016

than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel …

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Funding Self-Employment : The Role of Consumer Credit

Kneiding, Christoph - 2012

This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans - in particular installment loans and overdrafts - to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and non-financial household variables we show that self-employed households particularly use personal...

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A Lasting Crisis Affects R&D Decisions of Smaller Firms : The Greek Experience

Giotopoulos, Ioannis; Kritikos, Alexander; Tsakanikas, … - 2022

We use the prolonged Greek crisis as a case study to understand how a lasting economic shock affects the innovation strategies of firms in economies with moderate innovation activities. Adopting the 3-stage CDM model, we explore the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity for different...

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Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses

Belitski, Maksim; Guenther, Christina; Kritikos, Alexander - 2021

The existential threat to small businesses, based on their crucial role in the economy, is behind the plethora of scholarly studies in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the 14 contributions of the special issue on the “Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on...

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Work and Money : Payoffs by Ethnic Identity and Gender

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

immigrants in Germany show that ethnic identity is important for the decision to work and significantly and differentially …

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Google Econometrics and Unemployment Forecasting

Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2012

The current economic crisis requires fast information to predict economic behavior early, which is difficult at times of structural changes. This paper suggests an innovative new method of using data on internet activity for that purpose. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword...

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Financial Student Aid and Enrollment into Higher Education : New Evidence from Germany

Steiner, Viktor; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2009

We estimate the elasticity of enrollment into higher education with respect to the amount of means tested student aid (BAfoeG) provided by the federal government using the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP). Potential student aid is derived on the basis of a detailed taxbenefit microsimulation...

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The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2009

Risk attitudes have an impact on not only the decision to become an entrepreneur but also the survival and failure rates of entrepreneurs. Whereas recent research underpins the theoretical proposition of a positive correlation between risk attitudes and the decision to become an entrepreneur,...

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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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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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