In this paper, I analyse how the survival of new firms is affected by the average ability level in the founding team …, the team size, team members' homogeneity with respect to ability, and team members' heterogeneity with respect to … whole population of Danish firms founded in 1998, I find that the average ability level in a team and the team size have …

is team additions had the same characteristics as the initial team members. …

whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the incidence of social security contributions and taxes also hold up within … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive short-run employment effect of a revenue …

concerning NTBFs in Germany. The issues covered include the incidence of start-ups firms in Germany's technology …, adoption and diffusion of technology. The public support and policy initiatives for new technology-based firms in Germany are …

We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their …

Großbritannien und Deutschland beitragen soll. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, daß sowohl in Großbritannien als auch in Deutschland die …