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How much of a socialist legacy? The re-emergence of entrepreneurship in the East German transformation to a market economy
Fritsch, Michael; Bublitz, Elisabeth; Sorgner, Alina; … - In: Small Business Economics 43 (2014) 2, pp. 427-446
—relates to the re-emergence of entrepreneurship in East Germany. This region is particularly well suited for such a study because … period, suggesting the existence of a long-lasting regional entrepreneurship culture that can be regarded as an informal …
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Personality characteristics and the decisions to become and stay self-employed
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank; Kritikos, Alexander - In: Small Business Economics 42 (2014) 4, pp. 787-814
Based on a large, representative German household panel, we investigate to what extent the personality of individuals influences the entry decision into and the exit decision from self-employment. We reveal that some traits, such as openness to experience, extraversion, and risk tolerance affect...
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Start-ups, long- and short-term survivors, and their contribution to employment growth
Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 23 (2013) 4, pp. 719-733
This study documents that the survival of start-ups is central in explaining the relationship between entry and regional employment growth. Distinguishing between start-ups according to the period of their survival shows that the positive effect of new business formation on employment growth is...
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Balanced Skills and the City: An Analysis of the Relationship between Entrepreneurial Skill Balance, Thickness and Innovation
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Being a "jack-of-all-trades" increases the probability of running an entrepreneurial venture successfully; but what happens to "jack-of-few-trades" who lack sufficient skills? This paper investigates a possible compensation mechanism between balanced skills and cities, and how this compensatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884449
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Surviving Against the Tide: Are New Businesses in Innovative Industries Less Affected by General Economic Trends?
Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian; Schindele, Yvonne - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We investigate the role of industry and region-specific conditions for the survival of new businesses in innovative and in other manufacturing industries. The data comprises all German manufacturing start-ups of the 1992 to 2005 period. In contrast to studies for some other countries, we find...
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The Effect of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture on Economic Development - Evidence for Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We use the historical self-employment rate as an indicator of a regional culture of entrepreneurship and link this … measure to economic growth in recent periods. The results indicate that German regions with a high level of entrepreneurship … a regional culture of entrepreneurship is an important resource for regional growth. …
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Why Did Self-Employment Increase so Strongly in Germany?
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Sorgner, Alina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification. Applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we find that the main factors driving these changes in the overall level of self-employment are demographic...
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How Much of a Socialist Legacy? The Reemergence of Entrepreneurship in the East German Transformation to a Market Economy
Fritsch, Michael; Bublitz, Elisabeth; Rusakova, Alina; … - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The 40 years of socialist regime in East Germany were characterized by a massive anti-entrepreneurship policy. We … investigate the reemergence of entrepreneurship in East Germany during its transformation to a market economy following the … market economy, suggesting the existence of a long-lasting regional entrepreneurship culture. …
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Entrepreneurship and the Business Cycle
Koellinger, P.D.; Thurik, A.R. - Tinbergen Instituut
. This contradicts existing theoretical hypotheses which predict that entrepreneurship is pro-cyclical or not cyclical. We …
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Is Entrepreneurial Success Predictable? An Ex-Ante Analysis of the Character-Based Approach
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
is slightly better than that of the questionnaire, but lower than expected in theory. Interestingly, for those subgroups …
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