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Taking a Second Chance: Entrepreneurial Restarters in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2002
Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261524
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German Works Councils in the Production Process
Addison, John T.; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2003
In a sharp break with past German research, some recent estimates have suggested that plants with work councils have 25 to 30 per cent higher productivity than their works-councilfree counterparts. Such findings can only serve to buttress the strong theoretical and policy interest in the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261548
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Are Nascent Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-All-Trades? A Test of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data
Wagner, Joachim - 2003
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261621
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Are Young and Small Firms Hothouses for Nascent Entrepreneurs? Evidence from German Micro Data
Wagner, Joachim - 2004
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261762
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What a Difference a Y Makes : Female and Male Nascent Entrepreneurs in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2004
data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper uses an empirical model for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261884
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Exporting Firms Do Not Pay Higher Wages, Ceteris Paribus : First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Schank, Thorsten - 2004
trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261930
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Determinants of Trade Union Membership in Western Germany: Evidence from Micro Data, 1980-2000
Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2003
Germany from 1980 to 2000. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and women and for different groups of the workforce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262095
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Trade Union Membership in Eastern and Western Germany: Convergence or Divergence?
Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2003
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262096
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Establishment Age and Wages: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
Kölling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002
present first empirical evidence on this firm age - wage nexus for Germany. We find that older firms pay on average higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262131
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Nascent Entrepreneurs in German Regions : Evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM)
Lückgen, Ingo; Oberschachtsiek, Dirk; Sternberg, Rolf; … - 2004
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262136