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Female Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Germany
Audretsch, David B. - 2017
, self-employment and entrepreneurship plays an important role, and in particular new venture creation by women. This chapter … aims to provide a snapshot on female entrepreneurship in Germany, with a focus on female immigrant entrepreneurship. We … analyze female immigrant entrepreneurship against its historical background as well as in the light of the recent ‘European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944787
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Corporate income taxes and entrepreneurship : the type, quality, and quantity of entrepreneurship are influenced significantly by corporate income taxes-though only slightly
Block, Jörn - 2016
Corporate income taxation influences the quantity and type of entrepreneurship, which in turn affects economic … development. Empirical evidence shows that higher corporate income tax rates reduce business density and entrepreneurship entry … rates and increase the capital size of new firms. The progressivity of tax rates increases entrepreneurship entry rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011471069
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Are education and entrepreneurial income endogenous and do family background variables make sense as instruments? : a Bayesian analysis
Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: February 2010
Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011380037
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Are education and entrepreneurial income endogenous and do family background variables make sense as instruments? : a Bayesian analysis
Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: February 2010
Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826247
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Corporate income taxes and entrepreneurship : the type, quality, and quantity of entrepreneurship are influenced significantly by corporate income taxes : though only slightly
Block, Jörn - 2021
Corporate income taxation influences the quantity and type of entrepreneurship, which in turn affects economic … development. Empirical evidence shows that higher corporate income tax rates reduce business density and entrepreneurship entry … rates and increase the capital size of new firms. The progressivity of tax rates increases entrepreneurship entry rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013254337
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Education and entrepreneurial choice : an instrumental variables analysis
Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: November 2010
the likelihood that he/she starts a business.Implications for entrepreneurship research and practice are discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379198
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Does self-employment reduce unemployment?
Audretsch, David B.; Carree, Martin Anthony; Stel, … - 2005 - This version: October 2007
This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, high unemployment rates may lead to start-up activity of self-employed individuals (the “refugee” effect). On the other hand, higher rates of self-employment may indicate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280373
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Billionaire entrepreneurs : a systematic analysis
Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2013
measures to proxy for entrepreneurship often gives rise to misleading inferences. Interestingly the rate of billionaire …, more venture capital investment and lower regulatory burdens have higher entrepreneurship rates but less self …-employment. -- Entrepreneurship ; Innovation ; Institutions ; Regulation ; Self-employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721267
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Emergency aid for self-employed in the COVID-19 pandemic : a flash in the pan?
Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; Priem, Maximilian; … - 2020
The self-employed are among those facing the highest probability of strong income losses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Governments in many countries introduced support programs to support the self-employed, including the German federal government, which approved a €50bn emergency aid program...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012406215
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German financial state aid during COVID-19 pandemic : higher impact among digitalized self-employed
Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022
In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013411282