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 …

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

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 …

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 …

So far, there has been no data set which observes firm formations in Germany not only on a cross-sectional basis using … Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of newly founded firms in Germany: the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel. In each of the … ; panel data ; Germany …