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  <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51237" />
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  <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51237</id>
  <updated>2026-04-30T03:04:27Z</updated>
  <dc:date>2026-04-30T03:04:27Z</dc:date>
  <entry>
    <title>Climate risk perceptions of businesses: The role of experience and objective risk factors</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/311218" />
    <author>
      <name>Rieger-Fels, Markus</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/311218</id>
    <updated>2025-02-19T02:08:58Z</updated>
    <published>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Climate risk perceptions of businesses: The role of experience and objective risk factors
Authors: Rieger-Fels, Markus
Abstract: The changing climate requires businesses to take adaptive action. A key prerequisite for optimal adaptive action is that businesses are aware of the climate risks that they face. This, in turn, necessitates that businesses do not base their risk perception solely on prior experience, or a lack thereof, but take objective risk factors into account. I use data from a large-scale survey of German businesses to investigate how they assess the acute physical climate risk presented by the increased frequency of natural hazards: droughts, storms, extreme heat, heavy precipitation, and floods. I find experience to have a large effect on the perceived probability of hazard events, but no effect on their perceived consequences. Objective risk criteria such as firm size, industry, and location characteristics inform expectations independent of experience and, depending on the hazard, even to a larger extent than experience. The results suggest that it might not be a lack of risk awareness that underlies any adaptation gap.</summary>
    <dc:date>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Public childcare - its impact on gender equality in entrepreneurship revisited</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/333923" />
    <author>
      <name>Kay, Rosemarie</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Bijedić-Krumm, Teita</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Brink, Siegrun</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Nielen, Sebastian</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/333923</id>
    <updated>2025-12-17T03:50:08Z</updated>
    <published>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Public childcare - its impact on gender equality in entrepreneurship revisited
Authors: Kay, Rosemarie; Bijedić-Krumm, Teita; Brink, Siegrun; Nielen, Sebastian
Abstract: Objectives: The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of public childcare provision on women's and men's start-up rates in Germany. Going beyond previous studies, we also analyze its impact on the extent of the gender gap in start-up rates. Literature review: The current state of research indicates that public childcare provision generally reduces women's startup propensity. However, recent studies suggest that the relationship between public childcare provision and women' start-up propensity is not that clear-cut. It rather depends on the age group childcare is provided for. As the evidence regarding public childcare's impact on men's start-up propensity is mixed, it is unclear whether public childcare contributes to closing the gender gap in entrepreneurial activities. Approach/Method: We analyze the impact of public childcare provision on the start-up rate of women and men, as well as its impact on the corresponding Gender Parity Score (GPS) at a regional level. To do this, we generated a database based on public statistics covering the years 2012 up to 2018 and estimated Fixed Effect models. Results/Findings: Our results show that the effect of public childcare provision on women's and men's start-up propensity depends on the type of the venture and the age group the childcare is provided for. Moreover, public childcare affects women's and men's start-up propensity differently. All in all, public childcare provision decreases the GPS, indicating a widening of the gender gap. Implications and Value: As important as public childcare provision for women's general labor market participation is, it does neither improve their start-up propensity (quite the contrary) nor contribute to closing the entrepreneurial gender gap generally. Thus, public childcare provision seems not to be a policy for reducing the gender gap in entrepreneurship, apart from establishing economically substantial businesses.</summary>
    <dc:date>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Regional entrepreneurship: Pain or gain for economic growth?</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/281788" />
    <author>
      <name>Dienes, Christian</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Schneck, Stefan</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Wolter, Hans-Jürgen</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/281788</id>
    <updated>2024-02-02T02:35:22Z</updated>
    <published>2024-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Regional entrepreneurship: Pain or gain for economic growth?
Authors: Dienes, Christian; Schneck, Stefan; Wolter, Hans-Jürgen
Abstract: This research note examines the relationship between start-up rates and GDP per capita growth in urban and rural regions in Germany. Hereby, we take into account that urban and rural areas differ markedly in their resource endowment for entrepreneurship, which might be responsible for different effects of start-up activity on regional development. Therefore, we examine the growth implications rural entrepreneurship might have on the local economy. Our results suggest that new business formation is positively associated with economic growth in rural areas. In urban districts, however, the effect of start-up activity is insignificant. Therefore, regional development is less dependent on the emergence of new businesses in urban counties. The results also unveil that the often-cited inverse U-shaped relationship between entrepreneurship and GDP growth is mainly evident in rural areas.</summary>
    <dc:date>2024-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Family business succession planning: Are the outcomes dependent on the predominant gender in the management board?</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/303037" />
    <author>
      <name>Kay, Rosemarie</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Pahnke, André</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Welter, Friederike</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/303037</id>
    <updated>2024-09-27T01:35:11Z</updated>
    <published>2024-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Family business succession planning: Are the outcomes dependent on the predominant gender in the management board?
Authors: Kay, Rosemarie; Pahnke, André; Welter, Friederike
Abstract: While existing research on business successions stresses the importance of the economic situation of family business in this context, research on women's entrepreneurship, however, suggests that women-led businesses may be less economically attractive for potential successors because of structural differences in comparison to men-led business. Moreover, the business owner's gender may have an impact on the business succession process and its outcome too. Based on one the largest German establishment surveys which is augmented by additional administrative data, this chapter seeks to further link the two research strands by providing first insights into the impact of family businesses owner's gender on both business succession planning and the outcome of the business succession process. Regarding the outcome of business successions, the results indicate that differences between women- and men-led businesses are not related to gender but to characteristics of the businesses to be handed over.</summary>
    <dc:date>2024-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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