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Start-ups, New Business Employment, and the Effects on Incumbents: Who Contributes the Larger Share?
- Autor(in)
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Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
- Erschienen
- 10. September 2008
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2008-068
- Schlagwort(e)
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direct and indirect effects
Entrepreneurship
new business formation
regional development
- Zusammenfsg.
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We investigate the effects that new business formation has on employment in incumbent firms and compare it to the development in the start-ups. The analysis is performed for West German regions over the 1984-2002 period. It shows that the employment effects of new businesses on the incumbents are significantly positive. Moreover, we find indication that these effects on incumbents are considerably larger than the employment that is directly generated in the start-ups. We draw conclusions for policy and for further research.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- article research fields JER
- entrepreneurship
- JEL-Classification for JER
- L26 - Entrepreneurship ; M13 - New Firms; Startups ; O1 - Economic Development; O18 - Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses ; R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, and Changes