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The KfW/Zew Start-Up Panel : Design and Research Potential
Fryges, Helmut - 2009
Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of newly founded firms in Germany: the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel. In each of the … yearly panel waves computer-aided telephone interviews (CATI) are conducted with about 6,000 start-up firms from almost all … industries. The KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel will for the first time enable profound analyses of the temporal development of newly …
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Start-Up Success of Freelancers : New Microeconometric Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel
Merz, Joachim - 2006
revised German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for 1992 until 2002, which allows to incorporate institutional, personal and family …
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Predictors of Social Distancing and Mask-Wearing Behavior : Panel Survey in Seven U.S. States
Nikolov, Plamen; Pape, Andreas; Tonguc, Ozlem; … - 2021
This paper presents preliminary summary results from a longitudinal study of participants in seven U.S. states during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to standard socio-economic characteristics, we collect data on various economic preference parameters: time, risk, and social preferences, and...
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Dynamic Heterogeneous Distribution Regression Panel Models, with an Application to Labor Income Processes
Fernández‐Val, Iván; Gao, Wayne; Liao, Yuan; Vella, … - 2022
We consider estimation of a dynamic distribution regression panel data model with heterogeneous coefficients across …
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Entrepreneurship Over the Business Cycle in the United States : A Decomposition
Fossen, Frank M. - 2019
Entry rates into self-employment increase during recessions and decrease during economic upswings. I show that this is mostly explained by the higher unemployment rate during a recession, together with the fact that at all times, unemployed persons have a relatively high propensity to become...
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
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How Immigration May Affect U.S. Native Entrepreneurship : Theoretical Building Blocks and Preliminary Results
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2015
This paper describes the theoretical underpinnings and provides empirical evidence for a model that predicts a positive impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to invest in new skills. At...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013036749
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Do Small Businesses Create More Jobs? New Evidence for the United States from the National Establishment Time Series
Neumark, David - 2013
We use a new database, the National Establishment Time Series (NETS), to revisit the debate about the role of small businesses in job creation. Birch (e.g., 1987) argued that small firms are the most important source of job creation in the U.S. economy. But Davis et al. (1996a) argued that this...
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Entrepreneurship and Survival Dynamics of Immigrants to the U.S. and Their Descendants
Georgarakos, Dimitris; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021
Many studies have explored the determinants of entering into entrepreneurship and the differences in self-employment rates across racial and ethnic groups. However, very little is known about the survival in entrepreneurship of immigrants to the U.S. and their descendants. Employing data from...
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Entrepreneurship in the United States
Blanchflower, David G. - 2007
In this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980s in the United States. It is a companion paper to a recent equivalent paper relating to the UK. Data on random samples of twenty million US workers are examined taken from the Basic Monthly files of the...
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