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As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important to understand whether the personality of entrepreneurs drives the first hiring in their firms. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we analyze to what extent personality traits influence the probability of becoming an employer. The results indicate that personality matters. ...
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Industrial and Corporate Change
31 (2022), 3, S. 736–761
| Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos
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In Germany, the productivity of professional services, a sector dominated by SME, declined by 40 percent between 1995 and 2014. Similar developments can be observed in several other European economies. Using a German dataset with 700,000 firm-level observations, we analyze this largely undiscovered phenomenon in professional services, the fourth largest sector of the business economy in the EU-15, ...
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Small Business Economics
59 (2022), 3, S. 1273–1299
| Alexander S. Kritikos, Alexander Schiersch, Caroline Stiel
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The existential threat to small businesses, based on their crucial role in the economy, is behind the plethora of scholarly studies in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining the 15 contributions of the special issue on the “Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses,” the paper comprises four parts: a systematic review of the literature on the ...
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Small Business Economics
58 (2022), 2, S.593–609
| Maksim Belitski, Christina Guenther, Alexander S. Kritikos, Roy Thurik
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Firms with superior productivity, labeled superstar firms, are argued to be the link between rising concentration and the fall of the aggregate labor share in the US. This analysis confirms that similar evidence is found within the European context: the market share and firm size increase, whereas the labor share decreases with productivity. One of the much discussed mechanisms behind this development ...
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Journal of Applied Economics
25 (2022), 1, S. 583-603
| Caroline Stiel, Alexander Schiersch
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We investigate the impact of demographic changes on local public services taking the case of water service. We apply a structural production function approach to a large panel of German water utilities between 2003 and 2014. Exploring variation of population density and the population age structure across service areas and over time, we provide evidence that demographics and their changes significantly ...
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Utilities Policy
79 (2022), 101435, 17 S.
| Astrid Cullmann, Caroline Stiel
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The self-employed faced strong income losses during the Covid-19 pandemic. Many governments introduced programs to financially support the self-employed during the pandemic, including Germany. The German Ministry for Economic Affairs announced a €50bn emergency-aid program in March 2020, offering one-off lump-sum payments of up to €15,000 to those facing substantial revenue declines. By reassuring ...
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Journal of Economic Psychology
93 (2022), 102567, 16 S.
| Joern Block, Alexander S. Kritikos, Maximilian Priem, Caroline Stiel
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We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic and the government-mandated measures to contain its spread affect the self-employed — particularly women — in Germany. For our analysis, we use representative, real-time survey data in which respondents were asked about their situation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings indicate that among the self-employed, who generally face a higher ...
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Journal of Population Economics
34 (2021), S. 1141–1187
| Daniel Graeber, Alexander S. Kritikos, Johannes Seebauer
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In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
240 (2020), 5, S. 677–690
| Steffi Dierks, Alexander Schiersch, Jan Stede
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Small Business Economics
55 (2020), 4, S. 997-1018
| David B. Audretsch, Alexander S. Kritikos, Alexander Schiersch
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The human personality predicts a wide range of activities and occupational choices—from musical sophistication to entrepreneurial careers. However, which method should be applied if information on personality traits is used for prediction and advice? In psychological research, group profiles are widely employed. In this contribution, we examine the performance of profiles using the example of career ...
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Small Business Economics
53 (2019), 1, S. 1-20
| Alexander Konon, Alexander S. Kritikos