Taking a second chance: entrepreneurial re-starters in Germany

Joachim Wagner

Taking a second chance: entrepreneurial re-starters in Germany

Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

Standard

Taking a second chance: entrepreneurial re-starters in Germany. / Wagner, Joachim.
In: Applied Economics Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 3, 2003, p. 255-272.

Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

Bibtex

@article{d365c37826544bb098c90bd599bed70a,

title = "Taking a second chance: entrepreneurial re-starters in Germany",

abstract = "Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany in in part due to a habit that might be termed {"}stigmatisation of failure{"}: taking a second chance to build one's own firm after failing as a self-employed person is said to be much more difficult here than in other countries. This paper uses data from a large recent survey in ten German planning regions to document that 18% of today's firm owners founded a firm in the past that went out of business, and that 8% of people whose former firm went out of business are actively engaged in starting a new business today...",

keywords = "Economics, Deutschland , Entrepreneurship , Selbst{\"a}ndiger ",

author = "Joachim Wagner",

year = "2003",

language = "English",

volume = "49",

pages = "255--272",

journal = "Applied Economics Quarterly",

issn = "1611-6607",

publisher = "Duncker & Humblot GmbH",

number = "3",

}

RIS

TY - JOUR

T1 - Taking a second chance

T2 - entrepreneurial re-starters in Germany

AU - Wagner, Joachim

PY - 2003

Y1 - 2003

N2 - Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany in in part due to a habit that might be termed "stigmatisation of failure": taking a second chance to build one's own firm after failing as a self-employed person is said to be much more difficult here than in other countries. This paper uses data from a large recent survey in ten German planning regions to document that 18% of today's firm owners founded a firm in the past that went out of business, and that 8% of people whose former firm went out of business are actively engaged in starting a new business today...

AB - Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany in in part due to a habit that might be termed "stigmatisation of failure": taking a second chance to build one's own firm after failing as a self-employed person is said to be much more difficult here than in other countries. This paper uses data from a large recent survey in ten German planning regions to document that 18% of today's firm owners founded a firm in the past that went out of business, and that 8% of people whose former firm went out of business are actively engaged in starting a new business today...

KW - Economics

KW - Deutschland

KW - Entrepreneurship

KW - Selbständiger

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 49

SP - 255

EP - 272

JO - Applied Economics Quarterly

JF - Applied Economics Quarterly

SN - 1611-6607

IS - 3

ER -

Other publications by the same author(s)

A Note on Estimation of Empirical Models for Margins of Exports with Unknown Non-linear Functional Forms: A Kernel-Regularized Least Squares (KRLS) Approach

Wagner, J., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Jahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und Statistik. 2025, 10 p.

Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review