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Funding self-employment: The role of consumer credit
Kneiding, Christoph; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2011
This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans - in particular instalment loans and overdrafts - to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and non-financial household variables we show that self-employed households particularly use personal overdrafts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282216
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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282293
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What Makes an Employer?
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2019
As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important to better understand which variables influence the first hiring decision and which ones influence the subsequent survival as an employer. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179935
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The Influence of Start-up Motivation on Entrepreneurial Performance
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Stier, Claudia - 2022
Predicting entrepreneurial development based on individual and business-related characteristics is a key objective of entrepreneurship research. In this context, we investigate whether the motives of becoming an entrepreneur influence the subsequent entrepreneurial development. In our analysis,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296537
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Do Entrepreneurs Really Earn Less?
Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2014
Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468177
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Why Did Self-Employment Increase so Strongly in Germany?
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Sorgner, Alina - 2015
Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500317
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Why Did Self-Employment Increase so Strongly in Germany?
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Sorgner, Alina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271989
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Who Starts a Business and Who is Self-Employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rusakova, Alina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646322
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Do Entrepreneurs Really Earn Less?
Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011094088
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Income taxes and entrepreneurial choice: empirical evidence from Germany
Fossen, Frank M.; Steiner, Viktor - 2006
Germany, the top marginal income tax rates were reduced exclusively for entrepreneurs in 1994 and 1999/2000. These tax reforms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267760