relationship using panel data on German start-up firms as well as German patent data. It employs different indicators of patenting …The effect of innovations on employment at the firm level is theoretically ambiguous. The present paper analyses this … activity. By applying fixed-effects and first-differencing panel data methods it is shown that patenting activity has a …

selection rule for the investigation of the impact of subsidised firm foundation from unemployment on employment growth of the … firm. The empirical analysis is based on the ZEW Firm Start-up Panel using a cohort of firms founded in 15 labour market … two-step estimator. The FIML model yields a significant negative impact of bridging allowance on employment growth …

Germany. Hypothesis upon the influence of potential determinants are derived from theoretical approaches explaining the growth …-ups achieve on average higher employment growth rates than non-innovative ones independent of their location in Eastern or Western … Germany. With an yearly average of 15.8% (11.8%), the growth rates of innovative firms in Western (Eastern) Germany are …

Unternehmensgründungen in Deutschland leistet. Aber auch andere unternehmens- und unternehmerbezogene sowie unternehmensexterne Faktoren …

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 …

and Western Germany. Descriptive analyses have shown that most firms experience only small positive or negative employment … growth or stagnate over time. The job generation mechanism rests with a handful of firms that increase their employment … when separatingEastern and Western Germany as well as usingdifferen t definitions of fast growingfirms. Moreover, the …

interview data). The empirical analysis shows that firms receiving assistance perform better in terms of employment growth over …