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What a difference a Y makes-female and male nascent entrepreneurs in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 28 (2007) 1, pp. 1-21
In western industrialized countries men are on average more than twice as active in entrepreneurship as women. Based on … data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper uses an empirical model for the … decision to become self-employed to test for differences between women and men in the ceteris paribus impact of several …
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What a difference a Y makes : female and male nascent entrepreneurs in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2004
In western industrialized countries men are on average more than twice as active in entrepreneurship as women. Based on … data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper uses an empirical model for the … decision to become self-employed to test for differences between women and men in the ceteris paribus impact of several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013357732
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Firm survival and gender of firm owner in times of COVID-19 : evidence from 10 European countries
Wagner, Joachim - 2022 - This version: March 3, 2022
This paper uses firm level data from the World Bank Enterprise surveys conducted in 2019 and from the COVID-19 follow-up surveys conducted in 2020 in ten European countries to investigate the link between the gender of the firm's owner and firm survival until 2020.The estimated effect of female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990128
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Firm survival and gender of firm owner in times of COVID-19 : evidence from 10 European countries
Wagner, Joachim - In: Economies : open access journal 10 (2022) 5, pp. 1-8
This paper uses firm level data from World Bank Enterprise surveys conducted in 2019, and COVID-19 follow-up surveys conducted in 2020, in ten European countries to investigate the link between the gender of the firm's owner and the firm's survival until 2020. The empirical investigation uses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013199350
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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294455
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Innovation and exports of German business services enterprises: First evidence from a new type of firm data
Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
This paper contributes to the literature by providing the first evidence on the link between innovation activities (measured by the share of engineers and scientists in the workforce) and exports of German business services firms based on a large representative longitudinal sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294458
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Exports, R&D and productivity in German business services firms: A test of the Bustos-model
Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
This paper uses newly available data for German business services firms to test a hypothesis derived by Bustos (AER 2011) in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to export and to engage in R&D. Using a non-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294464
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The Great Export Recovery in German manufacturing industries, 2009/2010
Wagner, Joachim - 2012
the micro-structure of the recent export recovery in 2010 in manufacturing industries in Germany after the great recession …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294469
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Exports, R&D and productivity: A test of the Bustos-model with German enterprise data
Wagner, Joachim - 2012
This paper presents the first empirical test with German firm level data of a hypothesis derived by Bustos (AER 2011) in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to export and to engage in R&D. Using a non-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294473
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Lingering illness or sudden death? Pre-exit employment developments in German establishments
Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear shadow of death effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294474