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Why does the effect of new business formation differ across regions?

Fritsch, Michael (contributor); … - 2007

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Start-ups, new business employment, and the effects on incumbents : who contributes the larger share?

Fritsch, Michael (contributor); … - 2008

We investigate the effects that new business formation has on employment in incumbent firms and compare it to the development in the start-ups. The analysis is performed for West German regions over the 1984-2002 period. It shows that the employment effects of new businesses on the incumbents...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003766627

Are more start-ups really better? : quantity and quality of new businesses and their effect on regional development

Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - 2009

Empirical analyses suggest that the employment creating effect of start-ups is highest in regions with a low level of new business formation and that an increase in the regional start-up rate beyond a certain level may lead to negative employment effect. In explaining these results, we assume...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887125

Ready to leave the ivory tower? : academic scientists´ appeal to work in the private sector

Fritsch, Michael; Krabel, Stefan - 2009

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887176

Personality traits, self-employment, and professions

Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010

We investigate the effect of broad personality traits' - the Big Five - on an individua's decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of self-employment varies considerably across professions, we...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688983

Entrepreneurship and cultural creativity

Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010

We investigate the relationship between cultural creativity and entrepreneurship in two respects: first, cultural and personal creativity as a characteristic of self-employed individuals; second, selfemployment in professions that can be classified as belonging to the "Creative Class" as...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931342

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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The persistence of regional entrepreneurship : are all types of self-employment equally important?

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2015

We explore the role of different types of self-employment for a persistence of the regional level of entrepreneurship over time. Our analysis for West German regions shows relatively strong effects for the historical self- employment rate in the non-agricultural sector, particularly in...

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Business cycles, unemployment and entrepreneurial entry : first evidence from Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Pijnenburg, Katharina - 2013

Germany reveals that start-up activities are positively influenced by unemployment rates and that the cyclical component of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009723596

Entrepreneurship, growth, regional growth regimes

Fritsch, Michael; Kublina, Sandra - 2015

We distinguish four types of regional growth regimes based on the type of relationship between new business formation and economic development. The distinguishing characteristics of these regime types are analyzed in order to identify the reasons for different growth performance. Although growth...

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