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Blessing or curse?: Domestic plants' survival and employment prospects after foreign acquisitions

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2003

survival prospects and employment growth of that plant. The analysis uses plant level data for the UK electronics and food …

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Investigating the exponential age distribution of firms

Coad, Alex - 2009

While several plots of the aggregate age distribution suggest that firm age is exponentially distributed, we find some departures from the exponential benchmark. At the lower tail, we find that very young establishments are more numerous than expected, but they face high exit hazards. At the...

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Working poor: Arm oder bedürftig? Eine Analyse zur Erwerbstätigkeit in der SGB-II-Grundsicherung mit Verwaltungsdaten

Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Graf, Tobias; Rudolph, Helmut - 2008

Die Armutsmessung der empirischen Sozialforschung ist von einer Reihe von Annahmen und Setzungen abhängig, die Ausmaß und Struktur der Armutsbevölkerung beeinflussen. Äquivalenzskalen, Ermittlung des mittleren Einkommens als Referenzgröße und die Festlegung von Armutsschwellen führen zu...

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Start-ups by the unemployed: characteristics, survival and direct employment effects

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2007

allows us to analyze the characteristics which drive success of the businesses. While survival rates 2.5 years after business …

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Microeconomic Evidence of Creative Destruction in Industrial and Developing Countries

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Haltiwanger, John; Scarpetta, Stefano - 2004

In this paper we provide an analysis of the process of creative destruction across 24 countries and 2-digit industries over the past decade. We rely on a newly assembled dataset that draws from different micro data sources (business registers, census, or representative enterprise surveys). The...

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Market concentration and business survival in static v dynamic industries

Burke, Andrew E.; Hanley, Aoife - 2009

We propose that the effect of market concentration on firm survival is different according to whether an industry is … rates reduce the survival of new plants but only in markets marked by low entry and exit rates. Specifically, a 10 percent … increase in the 5-firm concentration ratio in a dynamic market raises the survival rate of new ventures by approximately 2 …

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A theory of firm decline

Clementi, Gian Luca; Cooley, Thomas F.; Di Giannatale, Sonia - 2010

We study the problem of an investor that buys an equity stake in an entrepreneurial venture, under the assumption that the former cannot monitor the latter's operations. The dynamics implied by the optimal incentive scheme is rich and quite different from that induced by other models of repeated...

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The survival of new ventures in dynamic versus static markets

Burke, Andrew E.; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2005

. In dynamic markets the survival of new ventures is increasing in industry concentration and decreasing in growth. The …

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Survival of new firms in the Brazilian franchising segment: An empirical study

Facanha, Luis Otávio; Resende, Marcelo; Cardoso, Vicente; … - 2011

The paper investigates survival patterns of Brazilian franchising firms during the 1994-1999 period. First, at a more … descriptive level one considered the (percentage) survival of newly created franchisors in the following years. The evidence … indicated a drastic decay in survival after only a few years and contrasts with the higher survival of firms in the franchising …

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Using Auxiliary Time-Dependent Covariates to Recover Information in Nonparametric Testing with Censored Data

Murray, Susan; Tsiatis, Anastasios A. - 2001

Murrayand Tsiatis (1996) described a weighted survival estimate thatincorporates prognostic time-dependent covariate …, 1991) thatincorporates these weighted survival estimates. As in Pepe andFleming, the test is an integrated weighted … difference of twoestimated survival curves. This test has been shown to be effectiveat detecting survival differences in crossing …

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