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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 … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271989
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The Dynamics of Inter-Regional Collaboration – An Analysis of Co-Patenting
Proff, Sidonia von; Brenner, Thomas - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2011
Germany. We find that several distance types decrease – as expected – the likelihood of link creation but also - not in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395799
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Examining the determinants of drug launch delay in pre-TRIPS India
Bhaduri, Saradindu; Brenner, Thomas - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 14 (2013) 5, pp. 761-773
The dynamics of drug launch has been an under-researched area, especially in the context of developing countries, which have diverse disease profiles and weaker forms of regulation compared to developed countries. A limited set of studies, undertaken in recent years, on the diffusion of new...
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Drivers of Self-Employment - A Multivariate Decomposition Analysis for the Case of Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Sorgner, Alina - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We analyze the sources of the rise in the levels of self-employment in Germany since reunification by applying the non …-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique. This analysis is performed separately for East and West Germany in order to account …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603883
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Do Entrepreneurs Really Earn Less?
Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011094088
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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 … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011164333
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The organizational and regional determinants of inter-regional collaborations – Academic inventors as bridging agents
Dornbusch, Friedrich; Proff, Sidonia von; Brenner, Thomas - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2013
Collaboration over distance is difficult to maintain in innovation projects which require a great deal of regional collaboration. However, patent documents reveal that a number of inventor teams are able to overcome long distances. Earlier literature started to investigate factors, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011141160
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Co-operation over Distance? The Spatial Dimension of Inter-organisational Innovation Collaboration
Dettmann, Anja; Proff, Sidonia von; Brenner, Thomas - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2012
part is a longitudinal study of 49 inter-organisational innovation groups in Germany. We find that the share of regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693272
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The effect of new business formation on regional development over time: the case of Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Mueller, Pamela - In: Small Business Economics 30 (2008) 1, pp. 15-29
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005722753
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Do entrepreneurs really earn less?
Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010961051