This paper investigates the difference between firms' actual and expected employment along the amount of loan invested … by them. In addition, it examines the relationship between the amount of loan received by firms and wages. Empirically … that there is a range of the loan amount for which firms' expected employment meets their actual one. In contrast, there is …

policy implications: since smaller young firms are particularly conducive to employment generation, they can be considered …

- and employment-oriented startups in the KFS, we find that Asian-owned and Hispanic-owned startups have higher rates of … patterns and decisions of startups. Longitudinal data from the Integrated Longitudinal Business Database (iLBD), Kauffman Firm … evidence in the literature on the determinants of taking the leap from a non-employer to employer firm among startups. Several …

Whilst internationally, the Mittelstand in Germany is admired and many countries try to emulate it, the current debate … in Germany praises the Silicon Valley model of entrepreneurship, contrasting the Mittelstand as low-growth, low-tech and … non-innovative - in short: as a hindrance to Germany's economic future. We therefore ask whether the Mittelstand actually …

detailed, hand-collected data on the complete set of successful and unsuccessful crowdinvesting campaigns run in Germany, this …