Personal and regional determinants of entrepreneurial acitivites: empirical evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM) Germany

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Personal and regional determinants of entrepreneurial acitivites: empirical evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM) Germany. / Wagner, Joachim; Sternberg, Rolf.
Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 2002. (Arbeitsbericht; No. 279).

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Wagner, J & Sternberg, R 2002 'Personal and regional determinants of entrepreneurial acitivites: empirical evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM) Germany' Arbeitsbericht, no. 279, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, Lüneburg.

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Wagner, J., & Sternberg, R. (2002). Personal and regional determinants of entrepreneurial acitivites: empirical evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM) Germany. (Arbeitsbericht; No. 279). Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg.

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Wagner J, Sternberg R. Personal and regional determinants of entrepreneurial acitivites: empirical evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM) Germany. Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg. 2002. (Arbeitsbericht; 279).

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abstract = "This paper contributes to empirical research in entrepreneurship by focusing on the link between two stylized facts that emerged from a number of studies for Germany and other countries: Entry rates differ between regions, and the propensity to become an entrepreneur is influenced by socio-demographic variables and attitudes. We develop a theoretical framework to discuss this link, and we test whether for a person of a given age, degree of schooling, attitude towards risk etc. regional variables do matter for the decision to start a new business ceteris paribus. Our econometric study is based on data for 10.000 persons from a recent representative survey of the population in ten German planning regions, the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM). We use a version of the probit model that takes care of the regional stratification of the data, and the results of the nonlinear models are carefully interpreted and illustrated. We find that the propensity to step into self-employment is, among others, higher for males, unemployed, people with contacts to a role model, and with past entrepreneurial experience, who live in more densely populated and faster growing regions with higher rates of new firm formation, while risk aversion and high prices of land have the opposite impact.",
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