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The Value of Human and Social Capital Investments for the Business Performance of Start-ups

Bosma, Niels; van Praag, Mirjam; Thurik, Roy; de Wit, Gerrit - 2002

We investigate the manifold posed question: To what extent does investment in human and social capital, besides the effect of talent, enhance entrepreneurial performance? We distinguish between three different performance measures: survival, profits, and generated employment. On the basis of the...

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Risikobereitschaft und Unternehmenserfolg

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 29, pp. 409-411

Neu gegründete Unternehmen halten sich besonders lange am Markt, wenn die Gründer eine mittlere Risikobereitschaft aufweisen. Dies zeigt eine aktuelle empirische Studie. Sind die Unternehmer sehr risikoscheu oder aber besonders risikofreudig, hat dies negative Auswirkungen auf die...

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Gründungen aus Arbeitslosigkeit: nur selten aus der Not geboren und daher oft erfolgreich

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 18, pp. 2-7

Existenzgründer aus Arbeitslosigkeit schaffen nicht nur ihren eigenen Arbeitsplatz, der in vielen Fällen dauerhaft Bestand hat. Häufig geben diese Selbständigen auch weiteren Menschen Arbeit. Wie eine gemeinsame Studie des DIW Berlin und des Instituts für die Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA Bonn)...

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Die Nachhaltigkeit von geförderten Existenzgründungen aus Arbeitslosigkeit: Eine Bilanz nach fünf Jahren

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Wießner, Frank - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 42 (2010) 4, pp. 269-291

One of the main instruments which was introduced with the 'Hartz-Reforms' was a start-up subsidy called Me Inc. ('Ich-AG'). This instrument was introduced in addition to the Bridging Allowance ('Überbrückungsgeld') which had already been implemented in the 1980s. Between 2003 and 2006 more...

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Market Concentration, Market Dynamism and Business Survival

Burke, Andrew; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2006

The paper uses a unique dataset comprising the population of new ventures that enter the UK market in 1998. We argue that we would expect the effect of market concentration on firm survival to be different according to whether an industry is static (low entry and exit) or dynamic. In our...

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Creative destruction and regional productivity growth: evidence from the dutch manufacturing and services industries

Bosma, Niels; Stam, Erik; Schutjens, Veronique - 2009

Do firm entry and exit improve the competitiveness of regions? If so, is this a universal mechanism or is it contingent on the type of industry or region in which creative destruction takes place? This paper analyses the effect of firm entry and exit on the competitiveness of regions, measured...

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Regional patterns and determinants of new firm formation and survival in Western Germany

Brixy, Udo; Grotz, Reinhold - 2006

There is a large body of literature on the determinants of regional variation in new firm formation. In contrast there are few articles on the spatial differences in new firm survival. Using panel data we analyse both items for 74 western German regions over a ten-year period. The positive...

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What is the value of entrepreneurship?: a review of recent research

van Praag, C. Mirjam; Versloot, Peter H. - 2007

is the contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy in comparison to non-entrepreneurs? We study the relative … contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy based on four measures that have most widely been studied empirically. Hence, we … answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

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Total factor productivity and the role of entrepreneurship

Erken, Hugo; Donselaar, Piet; Thurik, A. Roy - 2008

Total factor productivity of twenty OECD countries for a recent period (1971-2002) is explained using six different models based on the established literature. Traditionally, entrepreneurship is not dealt with in these models. In the present paper it is shown that - when this variable is added -...

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Information and competition entry

Ewers, Mara - 2012

This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition failure, where competition failure occurs when a subject...

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