When unemployed persons go into business, they often are characterized as necessity entrepreneurs, because push factors, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. In contrast to this, business founders who have been previously employed represent opportunity entrepreneurs because...

The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 offers a natural experiment to asses the causal effects of this reform on the probabilities of being self-employed and transition into and out of self-employment, using cross-sections (2002-2006) of German microcensus data. This study...

In den letzten Jahren sind viele Kinder und Jugendliche mit ihren Familien nach Deutschland geflüchtet. Ihre Integration ist von zentraler Bedeutung für ihr Leben heute und ihren weiteren Lebensweg. Wichtige Indikatoren einer erfolgreichen Integration sind das Zugehörigkeitsgefühl zu ihren...

In Deutschland ist der Anteil der Kinder, die frühkindliche Bildungsund Betreuungseinrichtungen (Kitas) besuchen, in den letzten beiden Jahrzehnten rasant gestiegen. Diese Einrichtungen sind somit ein zentraler Ort des frühkindlichen Lernens geworden. Für Kinder mit Migrationshintergrund, die...

Devising appropriate policy measures for the integration of refugees is high on the agenda of many governments. This paper focuses on the social integration of families seeking asylum in Germany between 2013 and 2016. Exploiting differences in services availability across counties as an...

A shortage of skilled labor and low female labor market participation are problems many developed countries have to face. Beside activating inactive women, one possible solution is to support the re-integration of unemployed women. Due to female-specific labor market constraints (preferences for...