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The Mannheim Enterprise Panel (MUP) and firm statistics for Germany

Bersch, Johannes; Gottschalk, Sandra; Müller, Bettina; … - 2014

The Mannheim Enterprise Panel (Mannheimer Unternehmenspanel – MUP) of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW …

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What determines the inclusion in a sustainable stock index? : A panel data analysis for European companies

Ziegler, Andreas (contributor); … - 2006

influence of unobserved heterogeneity in the framework of panel data models. The analysis shows that the probability for an …

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The KfW/ZEW start-up panel : design and research potential

Fryges, Helmut; Gottschalk, Sandra; Kohn, Karsten - 2009

Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of newly founded firms in Germany: the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel. In each of the … yearly panel waves computer-aided telephone interviews (CATI) are conducted with about 6,000 start-up firms from almost all … industries. The KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel will for the first time enable profound analyses of the temporal development of newly …

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Ability matching and survival of start-ups

Müller, Bettina - 2009

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 education. As a theoretical basis, I apply the O-ring theory...

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The export-growth relationship estimating a dose-response function

Fryges, Helmut (contributor) - 2006

The relationship between individual firms’ export behaviour and firm performance has been studied extensively in the economic literature. However, most studies from the field of economics only distinguish between exporting and non-exporting companies, using the firms’ export status as a...

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Age and productivity : evidence from linked employer employee data

Goebel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2009

using representative linked employer-employee panel data. We take into account that the levels as well as the changes in the …

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Exploring the relationship between scientist human capital and firm performance : the case of biomedical academic entrepreneurs in the SBIR program

Toole, Andrew A. (contributor); Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor) - 2007

Do academic scientists bring valuable human capital to the companies they found or join? If so, what are the particular skills that compose their human capital and how are these skills related to firm performance? This paper examines these questions using a particular group of academic...

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Beyond the mean gender wage gap : decomposition of differences in wage distributions using quantile regression

Heinze, Anja - 2010

Using linked employer-employee data, this study measures and decomposes the differences in the earnings distribution between male and female employees in Germany. I extend the traditional decomposition to disentangle the effect of human capital characteristics and the effect of firm...

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The contribution of international R&D to firm profitability

Peters, Bettina; Schmiele, Anja - 2011

The internationalisation of corporate R&D opens up the chances to participate in international knowledge sharing. This increasingly motivates firms to accelerate the pace and extent of their international R&D activities in order to enhance innovativeness and consequently competitiveness and...

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Personal experience: a most vicious and limited circle!? : on the role of entrepreneurial experience for firm survival

Metzger, Georg (contributor) - 2007

The analysis in this paper gives attention to effects on firm survival which come from entrepreneurial experience. It is likely that different kinds of experience result in different firm developments and therefore in different types of firm exit. Particular emphasis is placed upon the effects...

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