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  • SOEPpapers 191 / 2009

    Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurs and Their Duration in Self-employment: Evidence from German Micro Data

    Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP), we analyze whether necessity entrepreneurs differ from opportunity entrepreneurs in terms of self-employment duration. Using univariate statistics, we find that opportunity entrepreneurs remain in self-employment longer than necessity entrepreneurs. However, after controlling for the entrepreneurs' education in the professional area where ...

    2009| Jörn Block, Philipp Sandner
  • Diskussionspapiere 905 / 2009

    Glass Ceiling Effect and Earnings: The Gender Pay Gap in Managerial Positions in Germany

    Although there are a variety of studies on the gender pay gap, only a few relate to managerial positions. The present study attempts to fill this gap. Managers in private companies in Germany are a highly selective group of women and men, who differ only marginally in their human capital endowments. The Oaxaca/Blinder decomposition shows that the gender pay gap in the gross monthly salary can hardly ...

    2009| Anne Busch, Elke Holst
  • Diskussionspapiere 903 / 2009

    Demand Side Analysis of Microlending Markets in Germany

    In developing and transition economies, microlending has become an effective instrument for providing micro businesses with the necessary financial resources to launch operations. In the industrialized countries, with their highly developed banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate on the question of whether an uncovered demand for microlending services exists. The present pilot study ...

    2009| Alexander S. Kritikos, Christoph Kneiding, Claas Christian Germelmann
  • Diskussionspapiere 901 / 2009

    Are Private Equity Investors Good or Evil?

    The paper investigates the motives of activity (entry and exit) of Private Equity (PE) investors in European companies. Investment of a PE firm is not viewed unambiguously. First, it is claimed that PE investment is made for the sake of seeking short-term gains by taking control and utilizing the company's resources. Second, a PE firm invests because of prior identification of chances to add value ...

    2009| Oleg Badunenko, Nataliya Barasinska, Dorothea Schäfer
  • SOEPpapers 201 / 2009

    Glass Ceiling Effect and Earnings: The Gender Pay Gap in Managerial Positions in Germany

    Although there are a variety of studies on the gender pay gap, only a few relate to managerial positions. The present study attempts to fill this gap. Managers in private companies in Germany are a highly selective group of women and men, who differ only marginally in their human capital endowments. The Oaxaca/Blinder decomposition shows that the gender pay gap in the gross monthly salary can hardly ...

    2009| Elke Holst, Anne Busch
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Subsidiary Role and Skilled Labour Effects in Small Developed Countries

    This paper considers the proportion of skilled labour employed by subsidiaries in small countries in the context of the strategic role of subsidiaries. Strategic role is connected to autonomy and intra-organisational relationships and the mandates given to the subsidiary. In the paper, we draw on the literature on the strategic development of multinational corporations, and insights from inward foreign ...

    In: Management International Review 49 (2009), 1, S. 27-42 | Jens Gammelgaard, Frank McDonald, Heinz Tüselmann, Christoph Dörrenbächer, Andreas Stephan
  • Diskussionspapiere 920 / 2009

    Precautionary and Entrepreneurial Saving: New Evidence from German Households

    The well-documented positive correlation between income risk and wealth was interpreted as evidence for high amounts of precautionary wealth in various studies. However, the large estimates emerged from pooling non-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs without controlling for heterogeneity. This paper provides evidence for Germany based on representative panel data including private wealth balance sheets. ...

    2009| Frank M. Fossen, Davud Rostam-Afschar
  • SOEPpapers 240 / 2009

    Precautionary and Entrepreneurial Saving: New Evidence from German Households

    The well-documented positive correlation between income risk and wealth was interpreted as evidence for high amounts of precautionary wealth in various studies. However, the large estimates emerged from pooling non-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs without controlling for heterogeneity. This paper provides evidence for Germany based on representative panel data including private wealth balance sheets. ...

    2009| Frank M. Fossen, Davud Rostam-Afschar
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Demand Side Analysis of Microlending Markets in Germany

    In developing and transition economies, microlending has become an effective instrument for providing micro businesses with the necessary financial resources to launch operations. In industrialized countries, with their highly developed banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate on the question of whether an uncovered demand for microlending services exists. The present pilot study explores ...

    In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 229 (2009), 5, S. 523-543 | Alexander S. Kritikos, Christoph Kneiding, Claas Christian Germelmann
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes

    This article questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.

    In: Applied Economics Letters 16 (2009), 15, S. 1581-1586 | Holger Bonin, Amelie Constant, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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