Arbeitspapier
The role of employees for post-entry firm growth
While the majority of existing studies on the determinants of post-entry firm growth focus on the role of the founders or on the impact of firm-specific characteristics like size, age or industry affiliation, a possible impact of the characteristics of a start-up's workforce on post-entry growth has been widely neglected in the literature so far. Based upon a comprehensive panel dataset of establishments in Germany, this paper contributes to fill this gap and examines the role of the initial employment structure with respect to qualification, age, gender and nationality for post-entry employment growth measured both in terms of employees and in terms of fulltime equivalents. Moreover, it is analyzed whether the use of flexible work forms like regular part-time and / or marginal employment in the year of foundation affects post-entry growth. Our empirical results confirm that in particular the initial qualification structure of a start-up's employees matters for post-entry growth. Establishments using flexible work forms show higher post-entry growth with respect to total hours worked, but a significantly lower growth with respect to the number of employees.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IAW Diskussionspapiere ; No. 78
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance: General
Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope
- Thema
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Start-ups
post-entry performance
firm growth
job quality
flexibility
human capital
Unternehmensgründung
Unternehmenswachstum
Arbeitskräfte
Qualifikation
Arbeitszeitgestaltung
Schätzung
Deutschland
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Koch, Andreas
Späth, Jochen
Strotmann, Harald
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW)
- (wo)
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Tübingen
- (wann)
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2012
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
- 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Koch, Andreas
- Späth, Jochen
- Strotmann, Harald
- Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW)
Entstanden
- 2012
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