Do newly founded firms pay lower wages? First evidence from Germany

Small Business Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 161-171

  Brixy, Udo ^a   Kohaut, Susanne ^a   Schnabel, Claus ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH IAB   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Linked employer employee data; Newly founded firms; Wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248221121     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-006-0015-x     Document Type: Article

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