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Zur Evidenz regionaler Determinanten im Kontext individueller Gründungsaktivitäten

Zur Evidenz regionaler Determinanten im Kontext individueller Gründungsaktivitäten Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie Jg. 49 (2005) Heft 3-4, S. 167-184 Rolf Sternberg, Hannover/ Joachim Wagner, Lüneburg Zur Evidenz regionaler Determinanten im Kontext individueller Gründungsaktivitäten Empirische Befunde aus dem Regionalen Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM)1 Regional determinants of entrepreneurial activities: Empirical evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor. This papers has two aims. First we intend to explain empirically how the characteristics of an individual and of the region he/she lives influence the propensity of this individual to start a business. Second, we test for the ceteris paribus effect of regional characteristics, i.e. if one controls for the characteristics of the people who live there. While many studies exist which consider regional aggegrated data to explain regional start-up rates, multilevel analysis with both individual and (aggregated) regional data is rarely used so far among economic geographers and regional economists. Our econometric study is based on data for 12.000 persons from a representative survey of the population in eleven German planning regions, the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM). We use a version of the logit model that takes the rare events nature of becoming a nascent entrepreneur, and the regional stratification of the data, into account. We find that the propensity to step into http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie de Gruyter

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Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie Jg. 49 (2005) Heft 3-4, S. 167-184 Rolf Sternberg, Hannover/ Joachim Wagner, Lüneburg Zur Evidenz regionaler Determinanten im Kontext individueller Gründungsaktivitäten Empirische Befunde aus dem Regionalen Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM)1 Regional determinants of entrepreneurial activities: Empirical evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor. This papers has two aims. First we intend to explain empirically how the characteristics of an individual and of the region he/she lives influence the propensity of this individual to start a business. Second, we test for the ceteris paribus effect of regional characteristics, i.e. if one controls for the characteristics of the people who live there. While many studies exist which consider regional aggegrated data to explain regional start-up rates, multilevel analysis with both individual and (aggregated) regional data is rarely used so far among economic geographers and regional economists. Our econometric study is based on data for 12.000 persons from a representative survey of the population in eleven German planning regions, the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM). We use a version of the logit model that takes the rare events nature of becoming a nascent entrepreneur, and the regional stratification of the data, into account. We find that the propensity to step into

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