This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self … the self-employed Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, ex- Yugoslavs, Polish or other East Europeans, including those immigrants …

receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …

-person families receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment …

This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment …

survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …

natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for …

This paper investigates the age-dependency of participation and unemployment by integrating job search with … that the age pattern of search unemployment does not match observed unemployment and we propose a new concept of 'voluntary …' unemployment that agrees well with observations. …

increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …

previous jobs, and thus much more than they get in unemployment benefits. However, our results also show that some groups, such … demands may contribute to high unemployment. …

Are there any differences in how men and women fare from unemployment in terms of the wages they receive on a new job … experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of subsequent wages while no such effect could be found for women. These findings … unemployment duration was rather short, which may have prevented general capital from depreciating. However, the presence of large …