Das Bau- und Ausbaugewerbe steckt seit Jahren in einer tiefen Krise. Viele Unternehmen mussten in die Insolvenz gehen und zahlreiche Arbeitsplätze gingen verloren. Dieser Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit den Auswirkungen der Novellierung der Handwerksordnung (HWO) und des...

"In der Arbeit wird die Beschäftigungsentwicklung von Betrieben, die 1985 in München und Oberbayern gegründet wurden, während der ersten vier Jahre ihres Bestehens verfolgt. Durch diese neuen Unternehmen entstand im Jahre 1985 ein Stellenzuwachs von etwa 3,5%. Die Zahl neugeschaffener...

"Mit Blick auf ihr Potential zur Schaffung neuer Arbeitsplätze gelten neugegründete Kleinbetriebe vielfach als Hoffnungsträger der Beschäftigungspolitik. Grund zur Hoffnung kann es allerdings nur für diejenigen Betriebe geben, die tatsächlich über einen längeren Zeitraum hinweg bestehen...

"This paper investigates how founders' experience and professional background affect the duration of periods of self-employment, and to what extent the duration is affected by a balanced skill set in particular. In this context, an occupational choice framework based on a competing risk setting...

"This paper examines the impact of minimum wage in a dominant firm model. It is shown that in a labor-intensive market, the introduction of a binding minimum wage creates an entry barrier in the short run and increases unemployment in the long run." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

"This paper explores how different levels of regional concentration and specialisation affect the long-term growth of young firms. The sample consists of knowledge-intensive and non-knowledge-intensive western German manufacturing firms which were set-up in 1992 and managed to survive 11 years....

"Using a linked employer-employee data set for Germany, this paper analyses wage setting in a cohort of newly founded and other establishments from 1997 to 2001. While theory provides alternative explanations for higher or lower wages in newly founded firms, we show empirically that start-ups...

"Not everyone who plans to set up a firm succeeds in doing so. This paper focuses on the phase before a firm is founded, the pre-nascent stage of the entrepreneurship process. Based upon cross-sectional data from the German section of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), the specific aim...

"Using a linked employer-employee data set for Germany, this paper analyzes labour fluctuation and wage setting in a cohort of newly founded and other establishments from 1997 to 2001. We show empirically that start-ups tend to have higher labour turnover rates, ceteris paribus. Moreover,...

"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...