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consequence, more necessity entrepreneurship and worse startup outcomes in terms of sales and employment growth. We explain this …
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To assess the influence of nonstandard employment for the labor market participation of different demographic groups, we provide detailed descriptions of the development of atypical employment in comparison to standard employment, unemployment, and economic inactivity between 1996 and 2011. In...
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Rising self-employment rates in U.S. tax data that are absent in survey data have led to speculation that tax records capture a rise in new "gig" work that surveys miss. Drawing on the universe of IRS tax returns, we show that trends in firm-reported payments to "gig" and other contract workers...
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Solo self-employment is on the rise despite less favorable working conditions compared to traditional jobs. We show that the introduction of minimum wages in German industries led to an increase in the share of solo self-employment by up to 8.5 percentage points. We explain our findings within a...
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insurance system on the entry rate into entrepreneurship. In Germany, the public health insurance system is mandatory for most ….e. about a third of the average annual entry rate. The results show that the phenomenon of entrepreneurship lock, which an …
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Despite the widespread popularity of entrepreneurship education, there is thin evidence on its effectiveness in … university students in Tunisia, this paper studies the medium-term impacts of entrepreneurship education four years after … entrepreneurship education were short-lived. There are no sustained impacts on self-employment or employment outcomes four years after …
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In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the...
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