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In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of the choice between self-employment and paid employment he shows that having a background in a large number of different roles increases the probability of becoming an...
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Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing the hypothesis that young and small firms are hothouses for nascent entrepreneurs. The empirical estimation takes the rare events nature of...
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data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper uses an empirical model for the …
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trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia …
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Germany from 1980 to 2000. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and women and for different groups of the workforce …
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unionization has become more and more similar in eastern and western Germany in the period 1992 to 2000. The originally high level … of union density in eastern Germany has dropped below that of western Germany, and union membership has been falling … individuals? probability of union membership have converged over time between western and eastern Germany. After an assimilation …
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present first empirical evidence on this firm age - wage nexus for Germany. We find that older firms pay on average higher …
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information on nascent entrepreneurs at the regional level, and the lack of it for Germany, let us start the research project … Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM) Germany in 2000. As part of this project, we performed a representative survey of the …
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context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods …
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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.
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