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The KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel : Design and Research Potential

Fryges, Helmut; Gottschalk, Sandra; Kohn, Karsten - 2018

Existing data sets on firm formations in Germany suffer from various shortcomings that prohibit sound analyses of new … are cooperating to form a start-up panel for Germany. In each wave of the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel computer-aided telephone … agency in Germany. Three stratification criteria are applied in order to construct the sample of the start-up panel: year of …

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Founder's Human Capital, Entry Strategies and Start-Up Size

Gottschalk, Sandra; Niefert, Michaela; Muller, Katrin - 2009

This paper analyzes empirically the determinants of new born firms' initial size. As survival prospects of young firms tend to be linked to a firm's start-up size, a better understanding of the factors influencing start-up size is crucial. Most of the rare literature on initial firm size focuses...

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The Mannheim Enterprise Panel (MUP) and Firm Statistics for Germany

Bersch, Johannes - 2015

) is the most comprehensive micro database of companies in Germany outside the official business register (which is not … in Germany. At the end of 2013, the MUP contained information on 7.7 Mio firms, of which about 3.2 Mio were still active … MUP gives by and large a representative picture of the corporate landscape in Germany. The MUP is a valuable database for …

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Gender Differences in Business Success of German Start-Up Firms

Gottschalk, Sandra; Niefert, Michaela - 2011

Many studies found that women-owned firms underperform when comparing performance indicators at an aggregate level. The performance gap might be attributed to gender differences in personal and firm characteristics affecting performance. However, previous studies were not able to entirely...

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Does Energy Policy Hurt International Competitiveness of Firms? A Comparative Study for Germany, Switzerland and Austria

Rammer, Christian; Gottschalk, Sandra; Peneder, Michael R. - 2016

-level data from three countries with similar industry structure but different energy policies: Germany, Switzerland, and Austria …

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Minimum Wages and Competition : The Case of the German Roofing Sector

Kraft, Kornelius - 2012

East Germany which point to a substantial shift in industry structure. Minimum wages decreased both market entries and … some type of evasion strategy in eastern Germany, particularly since wages for skilled roofers declined towards the minimum …

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