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New Business Formation and Regional Development: A Survey and Assessment of the Evidence

Fritsch, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

research and draw some conclusions for entrepreneurship policy. …

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New Business Formation and Regional Development: A Survey and Assessment of the Evidence

Fritsch, Michael - In: Foundations and Trends(R) in Entrepreneurship 9 (2013) 3, pp. 249-364

, structural change, and increasing productivity, among others. Theory particularly emphasizes the role that some new businesses …

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Is industry location persistent over time? Evidence from coagglomeration patterns between new and incumbent firms in Germany

Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - In: Review of Regional Research 34 (2014) 1, pp. 1-21

We test whether new firms locate close to incumbent firms of the same industry. Tendencies to coagglomerate may explain the general wisdom that industry location is highly persistent over time. We perform separate analysis for East and West Germany which enables us to study two integrated areas...

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The Effect of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture on Economic Development - Evidence for Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - Disciplinegroep Economische Geografie, Faculteit … - 2014

We use the historical self-employment rate as an indicator of a regional culture of entrepreneurship and link this … measure to economic growth in recent periods. The results indicate that German regions with a high level of entrepreneurship … a regional culture of entrepreneurship is an important resource for regional growth. …

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Ready to leave the ivory tower?: Academic scientists’ appeal to work in the private sector

Fritsch, Michael; Krabel, Stefan - In: The Journal of Technology Transfer 37 (2012) 3, pp. 271-296

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Start-ups, long- and short-term survivors, and their contribution to employment growth

Fritsch, Michael; Noseleit, Florian - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 23 (2013) 4, pp. 719-733

This study documents that the survival of start-ups is central in explaining the relationship between entry and regional employment growth. Distinguishing between start-ups according to the period of their survival shows that the positive effect of new business formation on employment growth is...

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Unternehmensgründungen nehmen zu, wenn die Konjunktur abflaut

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Pijnenburg, … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 80 (2013) 12, pp. 3-8

Do economic recessions and high unemployment lead to more business start-ups or are people more likely to become self-employed in periods of economic prosperity? Our analysis for Germany reveals that the cyclical component of real GDP has a negative effect on start-up activities. Moreover, the...

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Regional Transitions from Socialism to Entrepreneurship: Russia and Germany compared

Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina; Wyrwich, Michael; … - European Regional Science Association - 2014

in the process of transition to a market-type economy. In this comparison entrepreneurship in West Germany is used as a … entrepreneurship and determinants of the decision to be self-employed in these two countries and their regions. While a number of …,et al.,2008). There is, however,hardly evidence on the dynamics of entrepreneurship in detail and with comparison to other …

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Why Did Self-Employment Increase So Strongly in Germany?

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Sorgner, Alina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification. Applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we find that the main factors driving these changes in the overall level of self-employment are demographic...

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Verdienen Selbständige tatsächlich weniger als Angestellte?

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Sorgner, Alina - In: DIW Wochenbericht 82 (2015) 7, pp. 134-147

. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university entrance degree (Abitur) but no further professional …

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