Die Gründer junger innovativer Unternehmen sind die Initiatoren eines unternehmerischen Prozesses, der in die Entwicklung bedeutender Innovationen, Wachstumsimpulse und in die Schaf-fung neuer Arbeitsplätze münden kann. Zugleich wird die Sterblichkeit dieser jungen Unterneh-men in den ersten...

This paper analyses the causal linkages between regional labour market variables and internal migration flows among German states between 1991-2006. We adopt a Panel VAR approach to identify the feedback effects among the variables and analyse the dynamic properties of the system through...

In this study we use import penetration as a proxy for foreign competition in order to empirically analyze (1) the impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S. and (3) whether the impact of import penetration is driven by...