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entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2011, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socio … 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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investigates and analyzes the pandemic's effect on new business formation, as well as business exits and insolvencies, in Germany …
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Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our …
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We analyze the sources of the rise in the levels of self-employment in Germany since reunification by applying the non …-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique. This analysis is performed separately for East and West Germany in order to account …
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The discussion on regional innovation systems emphasizes the duality of local and global links. While the former enable effective knowledge exchange between regional actors, the latter are considered to provide regional systems with knowledge diverse to their knowledge base. Our empirical...
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This paper investigates the geography and the effect of people in creative oc-cupation in Germany. The population share …
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We assess the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function …
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Innovation processes are characterized by a pronounced division of labor between actors. Two types of externality may arise from such interactions. On the one hand, a close location of actors affiliated to the same industry may stimulate innovation (MAR externalities). On the other hand, new...
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We analyze information and knowledge transfer in a sample of 16 German regional innovation networks with almost 300 firms and research organizations involved. The results indicate that strong ties are more beneficial for the exchange of knowledge and information than weak ties. Moreover, our...
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In this study we investigate the factors that shape the attitudes of scientists toward starting their own business or working in a private sector firm. The analysis is based on data collected from scientists working in the German Max Planck Society, a research institution devoted to basic...
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