Erfolgsfaktoren freiberuflicher Existenzgründung - Neue mikroökonometrische Ergebnisse mit Daten des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels

Joachim Merz and Peter Paic
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Peter Paic: LEUPHANA University Lüneburg,Department of Economic, Behaviour and Law Sciences, Research Institute on Professions (Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe (FFB))

No 55, FFB-Discussionpaper from Research Institute on Professions (Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe (FFB)), LEUPHANA University Lüneburg

Abstract: If certain start-up characteristics will indicate a business success, knowing such characteristics could generate more successful start-ups and more efficient start-up counseling. Our study will contribute to this by quantifying individual success determinants of freelance start-ups. The data base for the microeconometric analyses of the survival of the first three years is a revised German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for 1992 until 2002, which allows to incorporate institutional, personal and family/household socio-economic variables. We describe and discuss the datawork to achieve compatible information over time within a revised GSOEP and present microeconometric rare events logit, logit and probit results. The start-up success measured as the probability to survive the first three years is first of all influenced by an active labour force participation with its acquired skills and working experiences just before the start-up period (rank 1), followed by a non-university degree as the highest general human capital indicator (rank 2), a general (non-linear) experie nce indicated by age (rank 3) and the business related background (rank 4) as the type of liberal profession in the group of the liberal medical professions and the liberal technical and scientific professions.

Keywords: start-up success; freelancers (liberal professions); German Socio-Economic Panel; rare events logit (logit; probit) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 J21 J23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2006-01
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Working Paper: Erfolgsfaktoren freiberuflicher Existenzgründung Neue mikroökonometrische Ergebnisse mit Daten des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels (2006)
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