This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment …. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into self-employment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the … measurement errors induced by the pseudo panel structure. We find that previous (long-term) unemployment significantly increases …

The efficiency of the labour market critically depends on the design of its institutions with employment protection …

This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by … analyze unemployment at the intersection of state-dependence and the reduced opportunity costs of parenthood, distinguishing … UK (1994-2001). The results highlight spurious negative effects of unemployment on family formation among men, which can …

unemployment. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the extent to which gender differences occur in …

matching techniques, we analyse the effects of marginal employment on future individual outcome variables such as unemployment …"Marginal Employment", i.e. employment at low working hours and earnings not covered by social security, has been …, regular employment and earnings. In addition to average treatment effects, we calculate dynamic and cumulative treatment …

address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment …

In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal … feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility … decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer system which differs by employment state and number of children. To …

This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment … moderate, yet still above the level which would imply similar employment probabilities as other groups of migrants. …