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Opportunity Versus Necessity Entrepreneurship : Two Components of Business Creation

Fairlie, Robert W. - 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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Skills, Scope, and Success : An Empirical Look at the Start-Up Process in Creative Industries in Germany

Kohn, Karsten - 2018

household income.Based on individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large-scale survey on entrepreneurship in …

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Offshoring, Tasks, and the Skill-Wage Pattern

Baumgarten, Daniel - 2010

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...

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How Do Industries and Firms Respond to Changes in Local Labor Supply?

Dustmann, Christian - 2012

In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbed by the economy. We distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factor prices, through an expansion in the size of those production units that use the more abundant skill group more...

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Co-Determination and Innovation

Kraft, Kornelius - 2009

This paper examines the effect of the German co-determination law of 1976 (MitbestG) on the innovative activity of German firms. Co-determination applies to firms with 2000 employees or more. Data from 1971-1976 and 1981-1990 on 148 firms are used to compare the number of patents granted to...

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Revisiting the German Wage Structure

Dustmann, Christian; Ludsteck, Johannes; Schönberg, Uta - 2021

This paper challenges the view that the wage structure in West Germany has remained stable throughout the 80s and 90s. Based on a 2% sample of social security records, we show that wage inequality has increased in the 1980s, but only at the top of the distribution. In the early 1990s, wage...

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Does working at a start-up pay off?

Fackler, Daniel; Hölscher, Lisa; Schnabel, Claus; … - In: Small Business Economics 58 (2021) 4, pp. 2211-2233

Using representative linked employer-employee data for Germany, this paper analyzes short- and long-run differences in labor market performance of workers joining start-ups instead of incumbent firms. Applying entropy balancing and following individuals over ten years, we find huge and...

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Personal Bankruptcy Law, Wealth and Entrepreneurship : Theory and Evidence from the Introduction of a 'Fresh Start'

Fossen, Frank M. - 2011

, lenders may charge higher interest rates or ration credit supply, which can hamper entrepreneurship. Both aspects of a more … entrepreneurship …

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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity : Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?

Caliendo, Marco - 2010

Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are...

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Testing the 'Residential Rootedness'-Hypothesis of Self-Employment for Germany and the UK

Reuschke, Darja - 2011

Based on the notion that entrepreneurship is a 'local event,' the literature argues that self-employed workers and …

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