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What drives the productive efficiency of a firm? : the importance of industry, location, R&D, and size
Badunenko, Oleg (contributor); Fritsch, Michael (contributor) - 2008
This paper investigates the factors that explain the level and dynamics of manufacturing firm productive efficiency. In our empirical analysis, we use a unique sample of about 39,000 firms in 256 industries from the German Cost Structure Census over the years 1992-2005. We estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003725990
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Native-migrant differences in risk attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - 2006
This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003304390
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Allocative efficiency measurement revisited : do we really need input prices?
Badunenko, Oleg (contributor); Fritsch, Michael (contributor) - 2006
enterprises from the chemical industry in Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003338120
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Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - 2006
The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants' ethnic persistence and assimilation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003411696
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The long persistence of regional entrepreneurship culture : Germany 1925 - 2005
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2012
We investigate the persistence of levels of self-employment and new business formation in different time periods and under different framework conditions. The analysis shows that high levels of regional self-employment and new business formation tend to be persistent for periods as long as 80...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579325
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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - 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/10009580116
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Does quality make a difference? : Employment effects of high- and low-quality start-ups
Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of new firms' quality on the magnitude of their employment effects. Our results clearly show that the quality of start-ups, measured by their affiliation with sectors and innovative industries, strongly influences the direct and the overall employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009427856
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New business formation and regional development : a survey and assessment of the evidence
Fritsch, Michael - 2011
This paper reviews the current state of knowledge about the effect of new business formation on regional development. After a brief sketch of the origins of research on this issue, the main results of different lines of inquiry are discussed. Main issues are the development of start-up cohorts,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009427859
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Business cycles, unemployment and entrepreneurial entry : first evidence from Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Pijnenburg, Katharina - 2013
Germany reveals that start-up activities are positively influenced by unemployment rates and that the cyclical component of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009723921
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New firm formation by industry over space and time : a multi-level analysis
Fritsch, Michael; Falck, Oliver - 2003
formation: industry, location and change over time. The data is for West Germany and covers the 1983-97 period. Our analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437260