TY - CHAP

T1 - Nascent and infant entrepreneurs in Germany

T2 - evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM)

AU - Wagner, Joachim

N1 - Literaturverz. S. 409 - 411

PY - 2008

Y1 - 2008

N2 - Based on data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper documents that the patterns of variables influencing nascent and infant entrepreneurship are quite similar and broadly in line with our theoretical priors - both types of entrepreneurship are fostered by the width of experience and a role model in the family, and hindered by risk aversion, while being male is a supporting factor. Results of this study using cross section data are in line with conclusions from longitudinal studies for other countries finding that between one in two and one in three nascent entrepreneurs become infant entrepreneurs ...

AB - Based on data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper documents that the patterns of variables influencing nascent and infant entrepreneurship are quite similar and broadly in line with our theoretical priors - both types of entrepreneurship are fostered by the width of experience and a role model in the family, and hindered by risk aversion, while being male is a supporting factor. Results of this study using cross section data are in line with conclusions from longitudinal studies for other countries finding that between one in two and one in three nascent entrepreneurs become infant entrepreneurs ...

KW - Economics

KW - Gender and Diversity

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SN - 978-3-8258-1148-8

T3 - CREPS Entrepreneurship, Professions, Small Buseniss Economics

SP - 395

EP - 411

BT - Neue Ansätze der Mittelstandsforschung

A2 - Merz , Joachim

A2 - Schulte, Reinhard

PB - LIT Verlag

CY - Münster, Westfalen

ER -