@techreport{Prantl2010impact,
abstract = {What is the impact of firm entry regulation on sustained entry into self-employment? How does firm entry regulation influence the performance of long-living entrants? In this paper, I address these questions by exploiting a natural experiment in firm entry regulation. After German reunification, East and West Germany faced different economic conditions, but fell under the same law that imposes a substantial mandatory standard on entrepreneurs who want to start a legally independent firm in one of the regulated occupations. The empirical results suggest that the entry regulation suppresses long-living entrants, not only entrants in general or transient, short-lived entrants. This effect on the number of long-living entrants is not accompanied by a counteracting effect on the performance of long-living entrants, as measured by firm size several years after entry.},
address = {Bonn},
author = {Susanne Prantl},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {K20; L25; L26; L50; M13; P52; 330; firm entry regulation; sustained entry; self-employment; firm size; Markteintritt; Regulierung; Unternehmensgr\"{u}ndung; Selbstst\"{a}ndige; Unternehmensentwicklung; Betriebsgr\"{o}\ss{}e; Gewerberecht; Deutschland},
language = {eng},
number = {2010,30},
publisher = {Max Planck Inst. for Research on Collective Goods},
title = {The impact of firm entry regulation on long-living entrants},
type = {Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/57522},
year = {2010}
}
