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various industries in the life duration of new firms and about the importance of the region of location for the probability of …
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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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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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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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manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …
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We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...
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Germany, while at the same time charting the determinants of their presence. Furthermore, we identify newly established works …
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