Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
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 selfemployment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the … basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period 1996-2002. The estimation method accounts for cohort fixed effects and …