Entrepreneurship is a local and dynamic phenomenon. We jointly investigate spatial spillovers and time persistence of … regional new business formation. Using panel data from all 402 German counties for 1996-2011, we estimate dynamic spatial panel … persistence of start-up activity, especially in the high-tech industry. This indicates that entrepreneurship is deeply rooted in …

German municipalities using a panel on municipalities in the two largest German states from 1999 to 2006. We find significant …

German municipalities using a panel on municipalities in the two largest German states from 1999 to 2006. We find significant …

German municipalities using a panel on municipalities in the two largest German states from 1999 to 2006. We find signifi …

Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large representative German household … panel, we investigate to what extent personality traits, human capital, and the employment history influence the start …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …

Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household … panel, we investigate to what extent personality traits, human capital, and the employment history influence the start …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …

over the use of their human capital. The analysis employs the German Socio-economic Panel and accounts for the endogeneity …

entrepreneurship. The literature argues that the guaranteed availability of health insurance introduced by the Affordable Care Act (ACA …) of 2010 could reduce this barrier to entrepreneurship and thereby increase entrepreneurial activity. In this paper, we …-ASEC) combined with county-level panel data on health insurance costs in local Health Insurance Exchanges (HIX) introduced by the ACA …