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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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African Americansà pursuit of self-employment

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - 2007

This study examines causes of black/white gaps in business ownership and self-employment rates by analyzing small-business entry and exit patterns. We proceed by recognizing heterogeneity in business ownership across different industry groups: a classification of firms by human- and...

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Latina entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - 2009

We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze the relative success of self-employed female Hispanics. To allow for a meaningful comparison of earnings between self-employed and wage/salary employed women, we generate...

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Why have lending programs targeting disadvantaged small-business borrowers achieved so little succes in the United States?

Bates, Timothy; Lofstrom, Magnus; Servon, Lisa - 2010

Small business lending programs designed to move disadvantaged low-income people into business ownership have been difficult to implement successfully in the US context. Based in part on the premise that financing requirements are an entry barrier limiting the ability of aspiring entrepreneurs...

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Transitions to entrepreneurship and industry-specific barriers

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy; Parker, Simon C. - 2011

Drivers of entrepreneurial entry are investigated in this study by examining how entry into small-business ownership is shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering firms in various industries are shown to differ...

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Self-employment: a way to end unemployment? Empirical evidence from German pseudo-panel data

Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - 2007

basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period 1996-2002. The estimation method accounts for cohort fixed effects and …

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Start-ups by the unemployed: characteristics, survival and direct employment effects

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2007

,100 start-ups founded by unemployed persons in Germany. Individuals were subsidized under two different schemes, and we are able …

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Die reformierte Gründungsförderung für Arbeitslose: Chancen und Risiken

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2007

Support schemes for unemployed aiming for self-employment have been recently reformed several times. In 2003, the start-up subsidy" was added to the existing bridging allowance". In 2006 both instruments were merged to the Gründungszuschuss". Since the bridging allowance has been evaluated as...

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Is entrepreneurial success predictable? An ex-ante analysis of the character-based approach

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2007

This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal...

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

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2009

When unemployed persons go into business, they often are characterized as necessity entrepreneurs, because push factors, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. In contrast to this, business founders who have been previously employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because...

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