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Growth determinants of start-ups in Eastern Germany : a comparison between innovative and non-innovative firms
Almus, Matthias; Nerlinger, Eric A.; Steil, Fabian - 1999
This empirical analysis deals with the determinants of growth and the explanation of variations in the growth between innovative and non-innovative start-ups. Based on theoretical models explaining the growth of firms, hypotheses on potential determinants are formulated. The regression results...
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Wachstumsdeterminanten junger Unternehmen in den alten und neuen Bundesländern : ein Vergleich zwischen innovativen und nicht-innovativen Unternehmen
Almus, Matthias; Engel, Dirk; Nerlinger, Eric A. - 1999
Die vorliegende Studie untersucht, ob unternehmensspezifische und unternehmensexterne Determinanten das Beschäftigungswachstum von innovativen und nicht-innovativen Unternehmen in den alten und neuen Bundesländern unterschiedlich beeinflussen. Die Ergebnisse der multivariaten Analysen zur...
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Das Wachstum junger Unternehmen : eine Bestandsaufnahme 10 Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung
Almus, Matthias - 2001
Diese Studie versucht Eigenschaften zu identifizieren, die das Beschäftigungswachstum junger deutscher Unternehmen in den neunziger Jahren beeinflussen. Um für die unterschiedlichen wirtschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen zu kontrollieren, werden die empirischen Analysen getrennt für Ost- und...
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The minimum wage affects them all : evidence on employment spillovers in the roofing sector
Aretz, Bodo; Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - 2012
This paper contributes to the sparse literature on employment spillovers on minimum wages by exploiting the minimum wage introduction and subsequent increases in the German roofing sector that gave rise to an internationally unprecedented hard bite of a minimum wage. We look at the chances of...
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Short-run fertility effects of parental leave benefits : evidence from a structural model
Stichnoth, Holger - 2014
Based on a structural model of fertility and female labour force supply with unobserved heterogeneity and state … generous earnings-related transfer. The model predicts a short-term fertility effect of about 4%, which is consistent with … recent quasi-experimental evidence. The fertility effect is strongest for first births and increases with income. We use the …
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Completed fertility effects of family policy measures : evidence from a life-cycle model
Abiry, Raphael; Reuß, Karsten; Stichnoth, Holger - 2014
We estimate a structural life-cycle model of fertility and female labour supply and use it to evaluate the effects of a … childcare are found to have substantial fertility effects. Without these measures, completed fertility is estimated to be lower … a negligible effect on fertility. …
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Cultural influences on the fertility behaviour of first- and second-generation immigrants in Germany
Stichnoth, Holger; Yeter, Mustafa - 2013
Based on a 1% sample of the German population, we study how fertility rates in the country of origin—a proxy for … cultural imprint—influence the fertility outcomes of first- and second-generation female immigrants. We use both total … fertility rates in the year of migration and a new measure of completed cohort fertility rates in the countries of origin as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740254
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Intergenerational poverty dynamics in Poland : family background and children's educational attainment during transition
Beblo, Miriam; Lauer, Charlotte - 2002
In this paper, we analyse the intergenerational transmission of poverty from Polish parents to their children through children´s educational attainment during the transition process of the 1990s. The relationship between family background and education is investigated using an ordered probit...
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Do public works programs work? : some unpleasant results from the East German experience
Kraus, Florian; Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - 1998
We analyze the effectiveness of public works programs (PWP, Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahmen) in east Germany as measured by their effects on individual future reemployment probabilities in regular jobs. These are estimated by discrete hazard rate models on the basis of individual-level panel data....
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Relative earnings and the demand for unskilled labor in West German manufacturing
Steiner, Viktor; Wagner, Kersten - 1997
We analyze the economic factors which have contributed to the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled labor in German manufacturing, in particular the role played by the relatively rigid earnings structure. Potential effects of intensified international competition and skill-biased...
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