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Effects of New Business Formation on Regional Development over Time
Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - In: Regional Studies 38 (2004) 8, pp. 961-975
Fritsch M. and Mueller P. (2004) Effects of new business formation on regional development over time, Regional Studies38, 961-975. In the analysis of the impact of new business formation on regional employment change, considerable time lags were identified. The structure and extent of these time...
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Investigating the Anatomy of the Employment Effects of New Business Formation
Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Recent empirical research has found that the effect of new business formation on employment emerges over a period of about ten years and has identified a 'wave' pattern of these effects. In this study, we decompose the overall contribution of new business formation on employment change into...
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Unternehmensgründungen nehmen zu, wenn die Konjunktur abflaut
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Pijnenburg, … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 80 (2013) 12, pp. 3-8
Do economic recessions and high unemployment lead to more business start-ups or are people more likely to become self-employed in periods of economic prosperity? Our analysis for Germany reveals that the cyclical component of real GDP has a negative effect on start-up activities. Moreover, the...
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Why Did Self-Employment Increase So Strongly in Germany?
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Sorgner, Alina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 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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Verdienen Selbständige tatsächlich weniger als Angestellte?
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Sorgner, Alina - In: DIW Wochenbericht 82 (2015) 7, pp. 134-147
. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university entrance degree (Abitur) but no further professional …
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Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Entrepreneurship: Blessing or Curse?
Danakol, Seçil Hülya; Estrin, Saul; Reynolds, Paul; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
including both developed and developing economies, 2000-2009. The theory yields ambiguous predictions about the relationship … between FDI and entrepreneurship; positive spillovers via dissemination of technology or negative because of crowding out. Our … entrepreneurship in aggregate and intra-industry to be negative. Policies need to consider how to counteract this effect. …
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The Continued Search for the Solow Residual: The Role of National Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Acs, Zoltan J.; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
methodology that combines institutions and human agency into an interdependent system, applying the configuration theory. We argue …
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Do Entrepreneurs Really Earn Less?
Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …
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Foreign direct investment and domestic entrepreneurship: blessing or curse?
Estrin, Saul; Hülya Danakol, Seçil; Reynolds, Paul; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
including both developed and developing economies, 2000-2009. The theory yields ambiguous predictions about the relationship … between FDI and entrepreneurship; positive spillovers via dissemination of technology or negative because of crowding out. Our … entrepreneurship in aggregate and intra-industry to be negative. Policies need to consider how to counteract this effect. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126345
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The Effect of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture on Economic Development - Evidence for Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 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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