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Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History
Becker, Sascha O.; Wößmann, Ludger - 2007
Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in reading the Bible generated the human capital crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from...
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Brain drain in the age of mass migration: Does relative inequality explain migrant selectivity?
Stolz, Yvonne; Baten, Jörg - 2012
Brain drain is a core economic policy problem for many developing countries today. Does relative inequality in source and destination countries influence the brain-drain phenomenon? We explore human capital selectivity during the period 1820-1909.We apply age heaping techniques to measure human...
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Pharmaceutical research in Wilhelmine Germany: the case of E. Merck
Burhop, Carsten - 2008
In this paper, we describe the emergence and evolution of pharmaceutical research at the German company E. Merck during the late 19th and early 20th century. Revolutionary changes in the scientific knowledge base, especially the rise of bacteriological research, and the market entry of dyestuff...
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Zwei Kapitel aus der Frühgeschichte der Münchener Rückversicherung [Two Chapters on early history of the Munich Reinsurance Company: The Foundation/ The San Francisco Earthquake]...
Spree, Reinhard - 2010
The Munich Re was founded in 1880 and is from the very start till this day one of the leading insurance companies in the world. Despite its long and successfull existance the company’s history has not been reported yet in a way that fulfilled scientific criteria. This paper can be seen as a...
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Expansion und Überleben von Unternehmen in der Ersten Phase der Globalisierung
Baten, Jörg - 2001
Die Determinanten von Überleben oder Sterben, von Expansion oder Kontraktion von Unternehmen sind ein wichtiges Forschungsgebiet der Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Zwar bietet die mikroökonomische Theorie eine Reihe von fundierten Verhaltenshypothesen, z.B. die der Betriebseinstellung, wenn das...
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The factors of growth of small family businesses: A robust estimation of the behavioral consistency in the panel data models
Benáček, Vladimír; Michalíková, Eva - 2011
The paper quantifies the role of factors associated with the growth (or decline) of micro and small businesses in European economies. The growth is related to employment and value added in enterprises as well as to ten institutional variables. We test the data for consistency of behavioural...
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Zum Einfluss des Geschlechts des Übergebers auf die Wahl des familieninternen Nachfolgers: Eine theoretische und empirische Analyse in deutschen Familienunternehmen
Schlömer-Laufen, Nadine; Kay, Rosemarie - 2013
Basis einer repräsentativen Befragung von Familienunternehmen aus dem Jahr 2008/2009 ein Logit-Modell geschätzt, um die …
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Die volkswirtschaftliche Bedeutung von Familien- und Frauenunternehmen
Fels, Markus; Wolter, Hans-Jürgen - 2022
Das IfM Bonn schätzt seit 2001 wiederholt die Zahl der Familienunternehmen sowie die Zahl der frauengeführten … Familienunternehmen in Deutschland. Die aktuelle Schätzung kommt für das Jahr 2019 auf eine Zahl von rund 3,2 Mill. Familienunternehmen …. Dies entspricht rund 90 % aller Unternehmen. 591.000 oder 18 % dieser Familienunternehmen sind frauengeführt …
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Family business and regional development
Basco, Rodrigo (contributor); Stough, Roger (contributor);  … - 2021
This book explores the relationship between families, firms, and regions and the extent to which these relationships contribute to regional economic and social development. Although family business participation in economic activities has been a common phenomenon since pre-industrial societies,...
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Endangering of Businesses by the German Inheritance Tax? – An Empirical Analysis
Houben, Henriette; Maiterth, Ralf - In: BuR - Business Research 4 (2011) 1, pp. 32-46
This contribution addresses the substantial tax privilege for businesses introduced by the German Inheritance Tax Act 2009. Advocates of the vast or even entire tax exemption for businesses stress the potential damage of the inheritance tax on businesses, as those often lack liquidity to meet...
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