German unification and the ‘market adoption’ hypothesis

Hall, John B; Ludwig, Udo

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.cje.a035327

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“…Between 1989 and 1991, the share of manufacturing employment dropped from 48.7 percent to 16.0 percent (Hall and Ludwig, 1995) and unemployment rose from virtually zero in 1989 to more than 15 percent in 1992 (Burda and Hunt, 2001). These developments induced massive out-migration, especially of young and qualified workers (Hunt, 2006).…”

Section: Scenario Iii: Persistence Of Regional Entrepreneurship In Thmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The introduction of a market economy into East Germany in 1990 can be regarded as a "shock transition"; the ready-made formal institutional framework of West Germany was adopted practically overnight (e.g., Brezinski and Fritsch, 1995;Hall and Ludwig, 1995). Between 1989 and 1991, the share of manufacturing employment dropped from 48.7 percent to 16.0 percent (Hall and Ludwig, 1995) and unemployment rose from virtually zero in 1989 to more than 15 percent in 1992 (Burda and Hunt, 2001).…”

Section: Scenario Iii: Persistence Of Regional Entrepreneurship In Thmentioning

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The Long Persistence of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture: Germany 1925-2005

Fritsch¹,

Wyrwich²

2012

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AbstractWe investigate the persistence of levels of self-employment and new business formation in different time periods and under different framework conditions. The analysis shows that high levels of regional self-employment and new business formation tend to be persistent for periods as long as 80 years and that such an entrepreneurial culture can even survive abrupt and drastic changes in the politic-economic environment. We thus conclude that regional entrepreneurship cultures do exist and that they have long-lasting effects.

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Section: Scenario Iii: Persistence Of Regional Entrepreneurship In Thmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Scenario Iii: Persistence Of Regional Entrepreneurship In Thmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Long Persistence of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture: Germany 1925-2005

Fritsch¹,

Wyrwich²

2012

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“…Between 1989 and 1991, the share of manufacturing employment dropped from 48.7 percent to 16.0 percent (Hall & Ludwig, 1995) and unemployment rose from virtually zero in 1989 to more than 15 percent in 1992 (Burda & Hunt, 2001). These developments induced massive out-migration, especially of young and qualified workers (Hunt, 2006).…”

Section: Historical Background: Different Developments In East and Wementioning

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“…can be regarded as a "shock transition"; the ready-made formal institutional framework of West Germany was adopted practically overnight (e.g., Brezinski & Fritsch, 1995;Hall & Ludwig, 1995). Between 1989 and 1991, the share of manufacturing employment dropped from 48.7 percent to 16.0 percent (Hall & Ludwig, 1995) and unemployment rose from virtually zero in 1989 to more than 15 percent in 1992 (Burda & Hunt, 2001).…”

Section: Historical Background: Different Developments In East and Wementioning

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Self-Employment after Socialism: Intergenerational Links, Entrepreneurial Values, and Human Capital

Fritsch¹,

Rusakova²

2012

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractDrawing on representative household data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the role of an early precursor of entrepreneurial development -parental role models -for the individual decision to become self-employed in the post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the socialist regime significantly damaged this mechanism of an intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurial attitudes among East Germans with a tertiary degree that have experienced a particularly strong ideological indoctrination. However, we find a significant and positive relationship between the presence of a parental role model and the decision to become self-employed for less-educated people. For West Germans the positive relationship holds irrespective of the level of education.JEL classification: L26, Z1, D03

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“…Along with a proliferation of new business start-ups, MBOs and reprivatizations consitute the indigenous Mittelstand, mostly small firms with fewer than 20 employees (only ten per cent have a payroll of more than 200), confined largely to secondary activities such as food processing and the artisan trades. 48 Under-capitalized, heavily reliant on credit finance, and lacking entrepreneurial expertise, the interests of the indigenous Mittelstand are hard to reconcile with those of large firms with an ownership base in the west. This conflict of interests reflects in part the singularities of the German case, but it is symptomatic also of a polarization between large and small firms which appears to be endemic to the post-communist economy.…”

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Organizing democracy: Economic interest groups in post‐communist Germany

Padgett

1999

Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics

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German unification and the ‘market adoption’ hypothesis

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The Long Persistence of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture: Germany 1925-2005

The Long Persistence of Regional Entrepreneurship Culture: Germany 1925-2005

Self-Employment after Socialism: Intergenerational Links, Entrepreneurial Values, and Human Capital

Organizing democracy: Economic interest groups in post‐communist Germany

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