Loose (Interview)
When there were almost no flats in Halle yet ... Brigitte Loose about IWH's foundation and development Ms Loose, how did you experience the early days of IWH? Looking back, it was…
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Monitoring of Business Cycles for the Land Saxony-Anhalt
Monitoring of Business Cycles for the Land Saxony-Anhalt This data was generated by IWH on behalf of the Ministry of Economy, Science and Digitalisation of Saxony-Anhalt from 2007…
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IWH Economic Barometer for East Germany
IWH Economic Barometer for East Germany IWH has developed a quarterly output method for determining East Germany's gross domestic product (excluding Berlin). The calculations were…
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Membership
Membership Five Good Reasons for Becoming a Member of the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) The Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) - Member of the Leibniz…
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Speed Projects
Speed Projects On this page, you will find the IWH EXplore Speed Projects in chronologically descending order. 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2021 SPEED 2021/01…
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Economic Forecasts
Economic Forecasts IWH regularly generates various economic forecasts for the global economy, the euro area, and the German economy for the ongoing and the following year. It also…
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Imprint
Imprint and Disclaimer Imprint Institution and Address Halle Institute for Economic Research – Member of the Leibniz Association Kleine Märkerstraße 8 D-06108 Halle (Saale),…
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Projects
Our Projects 07.2022 ‐ 12.2026 Evaluation of the InvKG and the federal STARK programme On behalf of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection, the IWH and the RWI…
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Population and labour market
Population and labour market Inhabitants are all people (Germans and foreigners) with permanent residence in federal territory (or in a Land). That does not include members of…
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The Promise and Peril of Entrepreneurship
Robert W. Fairlie, Zachary Kroff, Javier Miranda, Nikolas Zolas
MIT Press,
2023
Abstract
Startups create jobs and power economic growth. That's an article of faith in the United States—but, as The Promise and Peril of Entrepreneurship reveals, our faith may be built on shaky ground. Economists Robert Fairlie, Zachary Kroff, Javier Miranda, and Nikolas Zolas—working with Census Bureau microdata—have developed a new data set, the Comprehensive Startup Panel, that tracks job creation and the survival of every startup in the country. In doing so, they recalibrate our understanding of how startups behave in the US economy. Specifically, their work seeks to answer three critical questions: How many jobs does each entrepreneur create? Do those jobs disappear quickly? And how long do entrepreneurial enterprises survive?
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