initially employ more skilled and more experienced workers than other startups. Controlling for these and other differences, we … find that spinoffs are less likely to exit than other startups. We show that in West and East Germany and in all sectors …

patterns and decisions of startups. Longitudinal data from the Integrated Longitudinal Business Database (iLBD), Kauffman Firm … evidence in the literature on the determinants of taking the leap from a non-employer to employer firm among startups. Several … interesting patterns emerge regarding the dynamics of non-employer startups hiring their first employee. Hiring rates among the …

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 …

startups survive longer than their non-innovative counterparts. In this framework, our own empirical analysis shows that … greater survival is achieved when startups engage successfully in both product innovation and process innovation, with a key … that the creation and survival of innovative start-ups should become one qualifying point of the economic policy agenda. …

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 … workers joining start-ups can catch up with the income of similar workers entering incumbent firms. …

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 … in startups than in incumbents. Therefore, even if startups provide employment opportunities for certain groups of …