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 …

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 …

effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the basis a detailed micro-simulation model for Germany which includes a …