previous research. Using a large and representative sample of German start-ups, I show that worker replacement has negative …

startup employment growth. We argue that “scientific absorptive capacity” at the startup is critical for reaping the benefits … employment contribution from startup firms and attribute those employment gains to university research alliances and other … university connections. We find significant contributions to employment growth from university research alliances and other …

entrepreneurial success, founders' human capital is an important determinant of firm's employment growth as well. This paper … investigates if the depreciation of a founder's academic knowledge affects a start-up's employment growth. The depreciation of … university until the start-up is founded on firm's employment growth. Using quantile regressions, human capital depreciation is …

analyzing the number of start‐ups and firm closures on a yearly basis for Germany. Further, the MUP is the sampling frame for …) is the most comprehensive micro database of companies in Germany outside the official business register (which is not … in Germany. At the end of 2013, the MUP contained information on 7.7 Mio firms, of which about 3.2 Mio were still active …

-- Start-ups ; performance ; gender ; female entrepreneurship …

between male and female employees in Germany. I extend the traditional decomposition to disentangle the effect of human …

effect on the survival probability. -- Entrepreneurship ; firm survival ; O-ring theory ; start-ups …

German high-tech start-ups, examines whether internationalisation leads to faster growth among high-tech start-ups. Results … organisatorische Ressourcen erfordern, stellt sich die Frage, wie die kleinsten Unternehmen im High-tech Sektor, die "High-tech Start-ups … Internationalisierung zu einem schnelleren Wachstum unter diesen "High-tech Start-ups" führen kann. Die Ergebnisse verdeutlichen, daß die …

the years before exit. For this reason we evaluate whether market exits differ significantly in their employment … important characteristics measured at start-up. The comparison of the employment growth rates among the thus formed groups …. A considerable number of firms exiting from 1995 until 1998 has experienced continuing employment losses or at least an …