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We investigate the reasons for the pronounced regional differences of new business formation after the transformation from a socialist planned system to a market economy in East Germany. Relatively high start-up rates are found in regions that had a well-qualified workforce and a relatively high...
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We propose an extension of the standard occupational choice model to analyze the life satisfaction of senior entrepreneurs as compared to paid employees and particularly retirees in Germany. The analysis identifies income and health status as main factors that shape the relationship between...
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We describe and analyze the long-term development of self-employment in German regions between 1895 and 2019. Based on rankings ("league tables") for the two years we identify those regions where the relative level of self-employment significantly increased ('leapfroggers'), and those where the...
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conducive to entrepreneurship and the notion that self-reliance, self-determination and proactive behavior are desirable from … entrepreneurship incidence is higher among the residents of regions that had TV signal than in regions without TV, indicating a first …
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Mounting empirical evidence shows that regional differences of entrepreneurship are persistent over long periods of … and to what extent the economic success in of regional entrepreneurship stimulates a collective memory of historical … entrepreneurship that spurs self-employment in later periods. The analysis of entrepreneurship in German regions over a period of more …
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We review and discuss research on the development of regional entrepreneurship over time. A particular focus is on the … long-term persistence of regional levels of entrepreneurship, its explanation, and its meaning for economic development …
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special focus on entrepreneurship and innovation. South Saxony has a long history of self-employment and knowledge generation … that results in a persistent culture of innovative entrepreneurship. In Mecklenburg, such a culture did never emerge …
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