Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of newly founded firms in Germany: the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel. In each of the …So far, there has been no data set which observes firm formations in Germany not only on a cross-sectional basis using … yearly panel waves computer-aided telephone interviews (CATI) are conducted with about 6,000 start-up firms from almost all …

revised German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for 1992 until 2002, which allows to incorporate institutional, personal and family …

Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a … discrete choice panel data model controlling for unobserved heterogeneity to simultaneously estimate labor supply and the …

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 …

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 …

that emerged from a number of studies for Germany and other countries: Entry rates differ between regions, and the …

Based on data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper documents that the …