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Almus, Matthias - 2000

and Western Germany. Descriptive analyses have shown that most firms experience only small positive or negative employment … when separating Eastern and Western Germany as well as using different definitions of fast growing firms. Moreover, the …

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Evaluating the impact of public start-up assistance : results from an econometric approach

Almus, Matthias - 2001

This paper analyzes the medium-term growth performance of firms that exclusively received start-up assistance from programs administered by the Deutsche Ausgleichsbank (DtA), a state owned bank, within two years after startup. I apply a parametric selection approach that controls for two...

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Growth Determinants of start-ups in Eastern Germany : a comparision between innovative and non-innovative firms

Almus, Matthias; Nerlinger, Eric; Steil, Fabian - 1999

This empirical analysis deals with the determinants of growth and the explanation of variations in the growth between innovative and non-innovative start-ups. Based on theoretical models explaining the growth of firms, hypotheses on potential determinants are formulated. The regression results...

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Public pensions, changing employment patterns, and the impact of pension reforms across birth cohorts : a microsimulation analysis for Germany

Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2010

birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future …

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Labor market and income effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2010

policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of a nationwide legal minimum wage of 7.50 € per hour on the …. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing system of means-tested income support and …

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Personality characteristics and the decision to become and stay self-employed

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2011

into self-employment and survival of self-employed persons in Germany. The empirical analysis reveals that among the …

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Personal bankcuptcy law, wealth and entrepreneurship : theory and evidence from the introduction of a "fresh start"

Fossen, Frank M. - 2011

tests the hypotheses derived by exploiting the introduction of a "fresh start" policy in Germany in 1999 as a natural …

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Distributional effects of the European Emissions Trading System and the role of revenue recycling : empirical evidence from combined industry- and household-level data

Cludius, Johanna; Beznoska, Martin; Steiner, Viktor - 2012

We calculate the expected distributional effects of the European Emissions Trading System combining industry and household-level data. By combining data on direct CO2 emissions by production sector from the German Environmental Account with the German Input-Output Accounts, we calculate the CO2...

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Differential taxation and firms' financial leverage : evidence from the introduction of a flat tax on interest income

Fossen, Frank M.; Simmler, Martin - 2012

such differential taxation on the debt ratio of firms. We exploit a 2009 tax reform in Germany as a quasi-experiment, which …

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Does consumption decline at retirement? : evidence from repeated cross-section data for Germany

Beznoska, Martin; Steiner, Viktor - 2012

for Germany, this paper analyzes the retirement consumption puzzle for the German case. For our broadest consumption …

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