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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 … self-employment. It turns out that a broad range of competences is not sufficient in order to prolong the expected duration …. However, a comprehensive set of skills combined with sales/business experience can extend the duration of self-employment …

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Labor market pooling and human capital investment decisions

Amend, Elke; Herbst, Patrick - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008

"Of the typically cited agglomeration advantages labor market pooling receives strong empirical support - yet remains under-explored theoretically. This paper presents a model of human capital formation in an imperfectly competitive, pooled local labor market with heterogeneous workers and...

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Employment stability of entrants in newly founded firms : a matching approach using linked employer-employee data from Germany

Schnabel, Claus; Kohaut, Susanne; Brixy, Udo - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008

incumbent firms. Our results indicate that individuals' employment stability was higher in incumbent than in newly founded firms …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005342798

Employment stability of entrants in newly founded firms : a matching approach using linked employer-employee data from Germany

Schnabel, Claus; Kohaut, Susanne; Brixy, Udo - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008

incumbent firms. Our results indicate that individuals' employment stability was higher in incumbent than in newly founded firms …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592456