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Verdienen Selbständige tatsächlich weniger als Angestellte?

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Sorgner, Alina - In: DIW Wochenbericht 82 (2015) 7, pp. 134-147

. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university entrance degree (Abitur) but no further professional …

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Firm Dynamics by Age and Size Classes and the Choice of Size Measure

Giannoulakis, Stylianos; Sakellaris, Plutarchos - 2021

The relationship of firm size and age to its growth and survival differs according to whether size is measured by sales or employment. Using a large and representative dataset of Greek firms over the period 1999-2014, we find the following patterns. Controlling for age, there is a strong...

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Who Creates and Destroys Jobs Over the Business Cycle?

Colciago, Andrea - 2019

Using US annual data spanning four decades and several business cycles, we show that that job flow rates of young firms are more cyclical than those of mature firms and detect no difference between the cyclicality of job flow rates of small and large firms. Further, we find that job flow rates...

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Market Exposure and Endogenous Firm Volatility Over the Business Cycle

Decker, Ryan - 2015

We propose a theory of endogenous firm-level volatility over the business cycle based on endogenous market exposure. Firms that reach a larger number of markets diversify market-specific demand risk at a cost. The model is driven only by total factor productivity shocks and captures the business...

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Unpacking economic uncertainty : measuring the firm, sector and aggregate components

Mohades, Siavash; Piccillo, Giulia; Treibich, Tania - 2024

We introduce a novel method for measuring economic uncertainty at the firm, sector, and aggregate levels using sales volatility and validate it by comparison with existing macroeconomic uncertainty measures. We use Compustat firms data in the period 2000-2022 to construct our uncertainty...

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The Short- and Long-run Employment Impact of COVID-19 through the Effects of Real and Financial Shocks on New Firms

Albert, Christoph; Caggese, Andrea; González, Beatriz - 2021

We use the latest available empirical evidence on the impact of the COVID-19 shock on the EU economy to predict its effect on firm entry, and in particular on high-growth startups, and on the related short- and long-run impact on employment growth. We find that the COVID-19 shock is expected to...

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Business dynamism and regional growth across the business cycle : implications for recovery from the COVID-19 crisis

Kacher, Nicholas; Weiler, Stephan - In: Regional science policy and practice : RSPP 16 (2024) 1, pp. 1-27

This paper sheds light on regional recovery prospects from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis by examining … and the 2007-2009 global financial crisis (GFC). Consistent with existing literature, our results show that US counties … that have suffered high employment losses during the COVID‐19 crisis and may be in need of support to aid recovery. …

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Survival strategies under sanctions : firm-level evidence from Iran

Cheratian, Iman; Goltabar, Saleh; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2022

Given the importance of firm strategic management in time of crises, this study investigates Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) survival strategies during the international sanctions against Iran. Using data from a questionnaire of 486 firms between December 2019 to September 2020, we...

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Entrepreneurship over the business cycle in the United States: a decomposition

Fossen, Frank M. - 2019

entry strongly applies to unincorporated entrepreneurship, but only weakly to incorporated entrepreneurship. This highlights … the association of unincorporated and incorporated entrepreneurship with necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship …

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High-Growth Entrepreneurship

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2018

Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth and more than two-thirds at firm age 7. Little of the size variation is accounted for by industry...

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