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Survival of spinoffs and other startups : first evidence for the private sector in Germany, 1976 - 2008
Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus - 2013
Using a 50 percent sample of all establishments in the German private sector, we report that spinoffs are larger and … find that spinoffs are less likely to exit than other startups. We show that in West and East Germany and in all sectors … investigated pulled spinoffs (where the parent company continues after they are founded) generally have the lowest exit hazards …
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Creative differences? : measuring creative economy employment in the US and UK using microdata
Kemeny, Tom; Nathan, Max; O'Brien, Dave - 2018
Using high-quality administrative microdata spanning 2011-2013, this paper develops new routines to compare creative economies using the creative trident framework, and applies them to the UK and US national and regional contexts. We find the UK creative economy is larger in workforce shares,...
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Firm size and innovation in the service sector
Audretsch, David B.; Hafenstein, Marian; Kritikos, Alexander - 2018
A rich literature links knowledge inputs with innovative outputs. However, most of what is known is restricted to manufacturing. This paper analyzes whether the three aspects involving innovative activity - R&D; innovative output; and productivity - hold for knowledge intensive services....
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Minimum wages as a barrier to entry : evidence from Germany
Bachmann, Ronald; Bauer, Thomas K.; Kroeger, Hanna - 2012
This study analyses employers' support for the introduction of industry-specific minimum wages as a cost-raising strategy in order to deter market entry. Using a unique data set consisting of 800 firms in the German service sector, we find some evidence that high-productivity employers support...
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Self-Selection into export markets by business services firms : evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom
Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2010
This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export, comparing exporters to firms that serve the national market only. We estimate identically specified empirical models using comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany,...
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Experts' awards and economic success : evidence from an Italian Literary Prize
Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2015
Product quality is often unobservable ex-ante and consumers rely on experts' judgments, sometimes in the form of ratings or awards. Do awards affect consumers' choices or, conversely, are they conferred on the most popular products? To disentangle this issue, we use data about the most important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010469022
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Sectoral explanations of employment in Europe : the role of services
D'Agostino, Antonello (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in the share of service-related jobs in total...
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What drives spatial clusters of entrepreneurship in China? : evidence from economic census data
Liang, Zheng; Zhao, Zhong - 2017
unevenly in China. Using micro data from 2008 economic census and 2005 population census, this paper explains spatial clusters …
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The births of new private-owned enterprises in an environment of state-owned enterprises
Zhao, Zhong; Liang, Zheng - 2023
The impact of the incumbent state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on the births of new private-owned enterprises (POEs) in China is a central concern for the government and society. In this paper, we apply agglomeration theories to distinguish the linkages between SOEs and POEs. Using China's 2008...
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Sectoral linkage in the Ethiopian economy : a social accounting matrix multiplier analysis
Kebede, Selamawit G.; Heshmati, Almas - 2023
This research investigates the Ethiopian economy's sectoral linkages. It examines the forward and backward production and total linkages of the industry with the agriculture and service sectors. The import penetration and export intensity of the agriculture-based industry and the manufacturing...
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