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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; 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 …

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The effects of new business formation on regional development over time

Fritsch, Michael (contributor); Mueller, Pamela (contributor) - 2004

In our analysis of the impact of new business formation on regional employment change we identified considerable time lags. We investigated the structure and extent of these time lags by applying the Almon lag model and found that new firms can have both a positive and a negative effect on...

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The effect of industry, region and time on new business survival : a multi-dimensional analysis

Fritsch, Michael (contributor); Brixy, Udo (contributor); … - 2004

We analyze the effect of industry, region, and time on new business survival rates by means of a multidimensional approach. The data relate to West German counties in the 1983-2000 period. Survival chances of start-ups tend to be relatively low in industries characterized by a high minimum...

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Regional growth regimes revisited : the case of West Germany

Fritsch, Michael (contributor); Mueller, Pamela (contributor) - 2004

Audretsch and Fritsch (2002) proposed two explanations for the mixed evidence regarding the relationship between new firm formation and regional development. Firstly, they found evidence for the existence of long time lags needed before the main effects of new firm formation on employment change...

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Entrepreneurship, entry and performance of new business compared in two growth regimes : East and West Germany

Fritsch, Michael (contributor) - 2004

Germany. The differences of the factors determining the formation of new businesses as well as their development between these …

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The persistence of regional new business formation-activity over time : assessing the potential of policy promotion programs

Fritsch, Michael (contributor); Mueller, Pamela (contributor) - 2005

We investigate regional differences in the level and the development of regional new business formation activity. There is a pronounced variance of start-up rates across the regions. The level of regional new firm formation is rather path-dependent so that changes are relatively small. The main...