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Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2019

As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important …

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Business cycles and start-ups across industries : an empirical analysis of German regions

Konon, Alexander; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - 2018

We analyze whether start-up rates in different industries systematically change with business cycle variables. Using a unique data set at the industry level, we mostly find correlations that are consistent with counter-cyclical influences of the business cycle on entries in both innovative and...

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Why did self-employment increase so strongly in Germany?

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Sorgner, Alina - 2015 - This version: January 2015

Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification. Applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we find that the main factors driving these changes in the overall level of self-employment are demographic...

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How do entrepreneurial portfolios respond to income taxation?

Fossen, Frank M.; Rees, Ray; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; … - 2017

selectioninto entrepreneurship, we use changes in entry regulation into skilled trades. Estimation results are consistent with the …

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Opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship : two components of business creation

Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M. - 2018

A common finding in the entrepreneurship literature is that business creation increases in recessions. This counter …-cyclical pattern is examined by separating business creation into two components: "opportunity" and "necessity" entrepreneurship … entrepreneurship, there are many challenges to creating a definition that is both objective and empirically feasible. We propose an …

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Do entrepreneurs really earn less?

Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - 2014

employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …

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Entrepreneurial overconfidence : evidence from a C.A.R.T. approach

Koellinger, Philipp (contributor); … - 2005

We use a sample of 18 countries to study what variables have a significant impact on an indi-vidual’s decision to start a new business and classification and regression trees for an accurate interpretation of the data. Our results support existing literature suggesting the existence of strong...

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"I want to, but I also need to" : start-ups resulting from opportunity and necessity

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - 2009

unemployment. -- Entrepreneurship ; push and pull motives ; survival and failure ; job creation …

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Risk attitudes of nascent entrepreneurs : new evidence from an experimentally-validated survey

Caliendo, Marco (contributor); Fossen, Frank M. (contributor) - 2006

The influence of risk aversion on the decision to become self-employed is a much discussed topic in the entrepreneurial literature. Conventional wisdom asserts that the role model of an entrepreneur requires to make risky decisions in uncertain environments and hence that more risk-averse...

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The impact of risk attitudes on entrepreneurial survival

Caliendo, Marco (contributor); Fossen, Frank M. (contributor) - 2008

as entrepreneurs than do persons with particularly low or high risks. -- Entrepreneurship ; Risk Attitudes ; Survival and …

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