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The outcome of coaching and training for self-employment : a statistical evaluation of non-financial support schemes for unemployed business founders in Germany
Oberschachtsiek, Dirk; Scioch, Patrycja - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
"This paper focuses on the question of whether improving the competence of new business founders by means of coaching and training programs enhances the duration of self-employment. In our analysis we focus on support activities that are provided in addition to a financial subsidy and which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009228593
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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, and to what extent the duration is affected by a balanced skill set in particular. In this context, an occupational choice framework based on a competing risk setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592361
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The outcome of coaching and training for self-employment : a statistical evaluation of non-financial support schemes for unemployed business founders in Germany
Oberschachtsiek, Dirk; Scioch, Patrycja - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
"This paper focuses on the question of whether improving the competence of new business founders by means of coaching and training programs enhances the duration of self-employment. In our analysis we focus on support activities that are provided in addition to a financial subsidy and which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592363
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From potential to real entrepreneurship
Brixy, Udo; Sternberg, Rolf; Stüber, Heiko - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
, the pre-nascent stage of the entrepreneurship process. Based upon cross-sectional data from the German section of the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), the specific aim of this paper is to shed some light on the selection that takes place … between latent nascent entrepreneurs, nascent entrepreneurs and young entrepreneurs. The results clearly reveal that there are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592377
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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, and to what extent the duration is affected by a balanced skill set in particular. In this context, an occupational choice framework based on a competing risk setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537105
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From potential to real entrepreneurship
Brixy, Udo; Sternberg, Rolf; Stüber, Heiko - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
, the pre-nascent stage of the entrepreneurship process. Based upon cross-sectional data from the German section of the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), the specific aim of this paper is to shed some light on the selection that takes place … between latent nascent entrepreneurs, nascent entrepreneurs and young entrepreneurs. The results clearly reveal that there are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537140
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Beschäftigungsmuster von Frauen und Männern : Auswertungen des IAB-Betriebspanels 2012
Bechmann, Sebastian; Dahms, Vera; Tschersich, Nikolai; … - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2013
"For many years there have been lively debates about the integration of women in the labour market, especially in terms … of equality between women and men or the integration of women in management positions. In 2008 the data from the IAB … Establishment Panel (Fischer et al. 2009) shed light on the employment patterns of men and women from an establishment's perspective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721131
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Familie und Arbeitsmarkt : eine Längsschnittstudie zum Einfluss beruflicher Unsicherheiten auf die Familienerweiterung
Bernhard, Sarah; Kurz, Karin - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007
"In der Studie werden die Auswirkungen von Unsicherheiten auf dem Arbeitsmarkt auf die Entscheidung für oder gegen ein zweites Kind bei Müttern und Vätern in Deutschland analysiert. Mit Daten des sozioökonomischen Panels werden Piecewise-constant-exponential-Modelle für die Entscheidung zum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592278
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How collective contracts and works councils reduce the gender wage gap
Gartner, Hermann; Stephan, Gesine - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2004
"The gender wage gap in Germany is smaller in firms covered by collective contracts or having a works council, partly because these institutions are associated with lower unobserved productivity differences and less wage discrimination, partly because they compress the distribution of wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592300
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Fachkräfte und unbesetzte Stellen in einer alternden Gesellschaft : Problemlagen und betriebliche Reaktionen
Bechmann, Sebastian; Dahms, Vera; Tschersich, Nikolai; … - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
"With the upturn in the economic situation and with the demographic change, the discussion about unfilled vacancies for skilled workers has become relevant again. The report aims to contribute to this discussion with analyses at establishment level. To what extent are establishments having...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603546