find that spinoffs are less likely to exit than other startups. We show that in West and East Germany and in all sectors …Using a 50 percent sample of all establishments in the German private sector, we report that spinoffs are larger and … initially employ more skilled and more experienced workers than other startups. Controlling for these and other differences, we …

Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach. -- firm …

the founder(s). The analysis is based on matched employer-employee data and covers about 5,300 startups in manufacturing … endogenous and correlated with the human capital of the founders and the ownership structure of startups (single founder versus …

Using representative linked employer-employee data for Germany, this paper analyzes short- and long-run differences in … labor market performance of workers joining startups instead of incumbent firms. Applying entropy balancing and following … (un)employment. These disadvantages hold for all groups of workers and types of start-ups analyzed. Although our analysis …

This paper analyzes whether startups offer job opportunities to workers potentially facing labor market problems. It … compares the hiring patterns of startups and incumbents in the period 2003 to 2014 using administrative linked employer …-employee data for Germany that allow to take the complete employment biographies of newly hired workers into account. The results …