'entrepreneurial milieu' affect the decision to start a new business out of unemployment? The econometric study is based on data from a … propensity to step into self-employment. All these impacts are not only statistically significant, but economically important …

version of the logit model that takes care of both the rare events nature of the transition from unemployment to self-employment … regional “entrepreneurial milieu”, on the individual decision to start a new business out of unemployment. The econometric … shares of unemployed among the starters in a region) has a positive effect on the individual propensity to step into self-employment …

This paper uses a newly available comprehensive panel data set for manufacturing enterprises from 2001 to 2005 to … document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … for trading internationally are about the same in West and East Germany. Compared to firms that do not trade at all two …

what is often argued, therefore, we find no evidence for a negative causal effect of offshoring on employment in Germany or … negative causal impact on employment in offshoring firms. The effect is positive and large for productivity, and weak evidence …

business for a longer period of time tend to pay higher wages. Using a unique rich set of linked employer-employee data we … present first empirical evidence on this firm age - wage nexus for Germany. We find that older firms pay on average higher … wages for workers with the same broadly defined degree of formal qualification. This firm age differential vanishes after …

18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries document that average wages in … trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia …