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The Phantom of the Opera : Cultural Amenities, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth
Falck, Oliver - 2020
We analyze the extent to which endogenous cultural amenities affect the spatial equilibrium share of high-human-capital employees. To overcome endogeneity, we draw on a quasi-natural experiment in German history and exploit the exogenous spatial distribution of baroque opera houses built as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857538
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Business Cycles and Start-Ups Across Industries : An Empirical Analysis of German Regions
Konon, Alexander - 2018
We analyze whether start-up rates in different industries systematically change with business cycle variables. Using a unique data set at the industry level, we mostly find correlations that are consistent with counter-cyclical influences of the business cycle on entries in both innovative and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919510
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Business Cycles, Unemployment and Entrepreneurial Entry : Evidence from Germany
Fritsch, Michael - 2014
what extent business cycles or unemployment levels influence entries into entrepreneurship. Our analysis for Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061445
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028175
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Who Starts a Business and Who is Self-Employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110854
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Entrepreneurship in the Region
Fritsch, Michael (contributor); Schmude, Jürgen (contributor) - 2006
Entrepreneurship in the Region approaches many different aspects of entrepreneurship from a regional perspective. The regional influences on entrepreneurship analyzed entail regional peculiarities and disparities in new business formation processes, the success and the employment effects of new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520727
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Regional Trajectories of Entrepreneurship, Knowledge, and Growth : The Role of History and Culture
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2019
an original, historical take on entrepreneurship and regional development. It is a landmark study on Germany showing that … on Germany there are clear lessons for scholars and policy-makers in all high-income countries. David J Storey … business formation in Germany 1907, 1925 and Today -- The persistence of regional entrepreneurship -- The case of East Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012395943
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Who Starts a Business and Who Is Self-Employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rusakova, Alina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422061
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Why Did Self-Employment Increase So Strongly in Germany?
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Sorgner, Alina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011164333
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Do Entrepreneurs Really Earn Less?
Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010961524