opportunity entrepreneurs in terms of self-employment duration. Using univariate statistics, we find that opportunity … entrepreneurs remain in self-employment longer than necessity entrepreneurs. However, after controlling for the entrepreneurs …

wage structure that shows similar correlations between training and wages as would emerge in a human capital framework, but … for different reasons. Further, the wage structure responds to other influences, like the degree of labor mobility. …

Enlargement leads to surprising small job losses of less than 0.5 percent of total employment in Germany and of 1.5 percent in …

of qualification. Therefore it seems quite contradictory that a tremendous educational expansion in the USA is … accompanied by rising wage dispersion (overall and between educational groups). A second seemingly paradox development, which … resulting educational expansion firstly goes along with a composition effect which leads to wage dispersion. Secondly the …

in employment. However, in these models human capital formation is usually taken as given. This paper internalises the … the reaction of the trade union to tax rate changes are crucial for the employment and welfare effects. …