compensation system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated …

positive short- and long-term effects of benefit sanctions which are robust for men and women in East and West Germany. The …

, training measures and financial incentives for business start-ups. It is essential to increase incentives, intensify …

with a small negative cumulative earnings effect for older workers in west Germany. …

basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period 1996-2002. The estimation method accounts for cohort fixed effects and …

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …

labor market policies in Germany. It argues in favor of a reduced range of active labor market policy schemes focusing on …

Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany. …

Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our …