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We investigate persistence and change of the levels of regional new business formation in West Germany over a period of thirty years. Our indicator is the position of a region in the national ranking. As indicated by previous studies, we generally find a rather high level of persistence and...
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We investigate how initial conditions that existed in East Germany at the end of the socialist regime impact regional development during the turbulent shock transition to a market economic system. Our investigation spans a period of almost 30 years. Both the self-employment rate (an indication...
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An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region's lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there has...
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An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region’s lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there...
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1. Entrepreneurship and psychology in geographic context: Introduction -- 2. Micro-level psychology of entrepreneurship -- 3. Geographic variation of psychological factors associated with entrepreneurship -- 4. Persistence of regional entrepreneurship -- 5. Historical roots -- 6. Implications...
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Der Beitrag behandelt den Einfluss des Gründungsgeschehens auf die regionale Entwicklung. Viele dieser Wirkungen sind … für westdeutsche Regionen zeigen, dass nur für die Entwicklung in den 1990er Jahren ein positiver Zusammenhang mit dem … zeigt einen deutlich stärkeren Einfluss der Gründungen auf die Regionalentwicklung als in Westdeutschland. …
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anti-entrepreneurial socialist economy in East Germany in 1949, and the subsequent transformation to a market economy four … decades later were major historical shocks to the economy in general, and to entrepreneurship specifically. Our comparative …
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We investigate the effects that regional start-up activity has on employment in new and in incumbent businesses. The analysis is performed for West German regions over the 1987-2002 period. It shows that the effects of new businesses on employment in the incumbents are significantly positive and...
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