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information on nascent entrepreneurs at the regional level, and the lack of it for Germany, let us start the research project … Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM) Germany in 2000. As part of this project, we performed a representative survey of the …
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that emerged from a number of studies for Germany and other countries: Entry rates differ between regions, and the …
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Based on data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper documents that the …
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are lacking in Germany, we know from empirical studies that entry rates differ between regions, and that the propensity to … region matters for the decision to start a new business ceteris paribus, i.e. after controlling for sex, age, education etc … the region does not matter. The consequences of these findings for regional policies to encourage new firm entry are …
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start-up activity and larger shares of unemployed among the starters in a region) has a positive effect on the individual …
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Using a large recent representative sample of the adult German population this paper demonstrates that nascent necessity and nascent opportunity entrepreneurs are different with respect to some of the characteristics and attitudes considered to be important for becoming a nascent entrepreneur,...
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Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are less likely to move or migrate than employees. Using longitudinal data from … in employment status we found little evidence that the self-employed in Germany and the UK are more rooted in place than …
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Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might …, attitude towards risk, and the share of persons in the region who failed in the past, while it is positively related to …
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The paper uses a new German employer survey on wage setting practices to analyze incidence and sources of nominal wage rigidity in services vs. manufacturing. We observe that wage freezes are significantly more frequent and wage cuts less frequent in services. Reasons preventing wage cuts...
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Different models of protection against labor market risks are associated with diverging models of economic performance. Historically established institutional complementarities between labor market regulation, unemployment protection, and vocational training tend to mirror specific national...
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