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Female Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Germany
Audretsch, David B. - 2017
aims to provide a snapshot on female entrepreneurship in Germany, with a focus on female immigrant entrepreneurship. We …, self-employment and entrepreneurship plays an important role, and in particular new venture creation by women. This chapter … analyze female immigrant entrepreneurship against its historical background as well as in the light of the recent ‘European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944787
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Insurance, Entrepreneurial Start-Up, and Performance
Ejrnæs, Mette - 2014
Availability of (partial) insurance mechanisms is arguably important for the decision of (riskaverse) workers to start up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is available to both wage earners and self-employed on a voluntary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055110
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Insurance, Entrepreneurial Start-Up, and Performance
Ejrnæs, Mette - 2014
Availability of (partial) insurance mechanisms is arguably important for the decision of (riskaverse) workers to start up a risky entrepreneurial venture. Using administrative data from Denmark, where unemployment insurance (UI) is available to both wage earners and self-employed on a voluntary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056359
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Business start-ups by the unemployed : an econometric analysis based on firm data
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reize, Frank - 1998
This study investigates firm survival and employment growth of start-ups by unemployed people in East and West Germany … 1995 and could be observed at least one year after their foundation in 4 regions of East and 11 regions of West Germany. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011620673
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The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival
Koch, Melanie; Menkhoff, Lukas - 2024
Entrepreneurs tend to be risk tolerant but is more risk tolerance always better? In a sample of about 2,100 small businesses, we find an inverted U-shaped relation between risk tolerance and profitability. This relationship holds in a simple bilateral regression and also when we control for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468858
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The impact of firm entry regulation on long-living entrants
Prantl, Susanne - 2010
in firm entry regulation. After German reunification, East and West Germany faced different economic conditions, but fell …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662646
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Employment growth in newly established firms : is there evidence for academic entrepreneur's human capital depreciation?
Müller, Kathrin - 2009
entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003881345
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Sequence analysis in entrepreneurship research : business founders' life courses and early-stage firm survival
Heimann-Roppelt, Anna; Tegtmeier, Silke - In: International journal of entrepreneurial venturing 10 (2018) 3, pp. 333-361
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011958496
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Entry into entrepreneurship, endogenous adaption of risk attitudes and entrepreneurial survival
Brachert, Matthias; Hyll, Walter; Titze, Mirko - 2014
Empirical studies use the assumption of stability in individual risk attitudes when searching for a relationship between attitude to risk and the decision to become and survive as an entrepreneur. We show that risk attitudes do not remain stable but face endogenous adaption when starting a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421510
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On the simultaneity bias in the relationship between risk attitudes, entry into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial survival
Brachert, Matthias; Hyll, Walter; Titze, Mirko - In: Applied economics letters 24 (2017) 7/9, pp. 477-480
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011711189