The role of employees for post-entry firm growth |
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Authors: | Andreas Koch Jochen Späth Harald Strotmann |
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Affiliation: | 1. Institute for Applied Economic Research (IAW), Ob dem Himmelreich 1, 72074, Tübingen, Germany 2. Pforzheim University, Tiefenbronner Str. 65, 75175, Pforzheim, Germany
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Abstract: | While the majority of existing studies on the determinants of post-entry firm growth focus on the role of the founders or on the impact of firm-specific characteristics, possible effects of the characteristics of a start-up’s workforce have been widely neglected to date. In this paper we examine the role of initial worker and job characteristics (e.g., qualification, age, workload, marginal employment) of start-ups for their post‐entry employment growth. The analyses are based upon a capacious panel dataset comprising a representative 50 % sample of establishments in Germany. Our empirical results show that, inter alia, high-skilled and young workers are conducive to growth in terms of both the number of employees and full-time equivalents. With respect to flexible work forms, however, establishments using part-time employment show higher post‐entry growth only in terms of total hours worked, but a significantly lower growth with respect to the number of employees. |
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