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Internationale Firmentätigkeit und Firmenerfolg
Wagner, Joachim - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000672652
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The impact of risk aversion, role models, and the regional milieu on the transition from unemployment to self-employment : empirical evidence for Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2002
The focus of this paper is on the choice of the unemployed between becoming an entrepreneur or not. It contributes to the literature by empirically investigating two hitherto neglected issues: What is the impact of risk aversion and personal contact with a role model in shaping the decision to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410741
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The role of the regional milieu for the decision to start a new firm : empirical evidence for Germany
Wagner, Joachim; Sternberg, Rolf G. - 2002
are lacking in Germany, we know from empirical studies that entry rates differ between regions, and that the propensity to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411296
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German works councils old and new : incidence, coverage and determinants
Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2002
Germany, while at the same time charting the determinants of their presence. Furthermore, we identify newly established works …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411321
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Skill biased technological and organizational change : estimating a mixed simultaneous equation model using the IAB establishment panel
Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco; Radić, Dubravko - 2002
Recent years have brought growing evidence for an increasing labour demand for high skilled and a deterioration of the labour position of less skilled employees. The two most common explanations for this finding are an increasing international trade and a skill biased technological change....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412865
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Testing Lazear's jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship with German micro data
Wagner, Joachim - 2002
should have a higher probability of being self-employed than others. The empirical results for Germany support this jack …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413672
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Macroeconometric evaluation of active labour market policies in Germany : a dynamic panel approach using regional data
Hujer, Reinhard; Blien, Uwe; Caliendo, Marco; Zeiss, … - 2002
estimate the impacts of ALMP in Germany for the time period 1999-2001 with regional data of 175 labour office districts. Due to … accounts especially for the inherent simultaneity problem of ALMP. For West Germany we find positive effects of vocational … training and job creation schemes on the labour market situation, whereas the results for East Germany do not allow profound …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414213
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Personal and regional determinants of entrepreneurial activities : empirical evidence from the REM Germany
Wagner, Joachim; Sternberg, Rolf G. - 2002
that emerged from a number of studies for Germany and other countries: Entry rates differ between regions, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414681
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Works councils : sand or grease in the operation of German firms
Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002
Using a large panel data set we investigate whether works councils act as sand or grease in the operation of German firms. Stochastic production frontier analysis indicates that establishments with and without a works council do not exhibit significant differences in efficiency.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415166
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Establishment age and wages : evidence from German linked employer-employee data
Kölling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002
present first empirical evidence on this firm age - wage nexus for Germany. We find that older firms pay on average higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415590