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Technological change and labor market integration
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Wyrwich, Michael - 2018
Could the industrialization reduce social inequalities? We use the rise of office employment in the early 20th century as a historical experiment to study the effect of technological change on labor market access for vulnerable groups. In regions with industries that were strongly connected to...
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Who values the status of the entrepreneur?
van Praag, C. Mirjam - 2009
Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession ‘entrepreneurship’ shapes people’s occupational preferences and thus their choice behavior. The current study focuses on the determinants and consequences of the group status of a profession,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276993
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Woman and the labour market in East and West Germany: Socialist legacy and pre-socialist tradition
Wyrwich, Michael - 2017
There is a large and successful literature exploiting the division and re-unification of Germany as a natural … participation (FLFP) in East Germany as compared to West Germany. The starting point of the analysis is the empirical pattern that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011788773
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Who values the status of the entrepreneur?
Praag, Mirjam van - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession 'entrepreneurship' shapes people's occupational preferences and thus their choice behavior. The current study focuses on the determinants and consequences of the group status of a profession,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004984635
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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
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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Industry dynamics and highly qualified labor mobility
Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Noseleit, Florian - 2008
The literature on knowledge spillovers offers substantial evidence that workers, as main carriers of knowledge, play a role in the diffusion of knowledge among firms. One of the channels through which knowledge is diffused is the job-to-job mobility of workers. The research question addressed in...
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Relaxed dismissal protection: effects on the hiring and firing behaviour of small firms
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2009
to react quickly to new challenges. This paper uses the latest change in dismissal protection legislation in Germany as a …
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Effects of entrepreneurship education at universities
Slavtchev, Viktor; Laspita, Stavroula; Patzelt, Holger - 2012
This study analyzes the impact of entrepreneurship education at universities on the intentions of students to become entrepreneurs or self-employed in the short-term (immediately after graduation) and in the long-term (five years after graduation). A difference-in-differences approach is applied...
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Exports and productivity growth: first evidence from a continuous treatment approach
Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - 2007
A recent survey of 54 micro-econometric studies reveals that exporting firms are more productive than non-exporters. On the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible reason for this result is that most previous studies are...
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Long-run sectoral development time series evidence for the German economy
Dietrich, Andreas; Krüger, Jens J. - 2008
In economic development, long-run structural change among the three main sectors of an economy follows a typical pattern with the primary sector (agriculture, mining) first dominating, followed by the secondary sector (manufacturing) and finally by the tertiary sector (services) in terms of...
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