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Founders' experience and self-employment duration : the importance of being a 'Jack-of-all-trades'. An analysis based on competing risks
Oberschachtsiek, Dirk - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
"This paper investigates how founders' experience and professional background affect the duration of periods of self-employment, and to what extent the duration is affected by a balanced skill set in particular. In this context, an occupational choice framework based on a competing risk setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537105
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From potential to real entrepreneurship
Brixy, Udo; Sternberg, Rolf; Stüber, Heiko - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
, the pre-nascent stage of the entrepreneurship process. Based upon cross-sectional data from the German section of the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), the specific aim of this paper is to shed some light on the selection that takes place …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537140
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The outcome of coaching and training for self-employment : a statistical evaluation of non-financial support schemes for unemployed business founders in Germany
Oberschachtsiek, Dirk; Scioch, Patrycja - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
"This paper focuses on the question of whether improving the competence of new business founders by means of coaching and training programs enhances the duration of self-employment. In our analysis we focus on support activities that are provided in addition to a financial subsidy and which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009228593
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Founders' experience and self-employment duration : the importance of being a 'Jack-of-all-trades'. An analysis based on competing risks
Oberschachtsiek, Dirk - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
"This paper investigates how founders' experience and professional background affect the duration of periods of self-employment, and to what extent the duration is affected by a balanced skill set in particular. In this context, an occupational choice framework based on a competing risk setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592361
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The outcome of coaching and training for self-employment : a statistical evaluation of non-financial support schemes for unemployed business founders in Germany
Oberschachtsiek, Dirk; Scioch, Patrycja - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
"This paper focuses on the question of whether improving the competence of new business founders by means of coaching and training programs enhances the duration of self-employment. In our analysis we focus on support activities that are provided in addition to a financial subsidy and which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592363
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From potential to real entrepreneurship
Brixy, Udo; Sternberg, Rolf; Stüber, Heiko - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
, the pre-nascent stage of the entrepreneurship process. Based upon cross-sectional data from the German section of the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), the specific aim of this paper is to shed some light on the selection that takes place …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592377