-employment and the consequences of unemployment rather than from advantages of self-employment. …

Business creation is economically important, and unemployment precedes the creation of a substantial share of new firms …. Yet, most research has focused on analyzing the effects of unemployment insurance policies on re-employment outcomes …, ignoring self-employment. In this paper, we analyze how the potential duration of unemployment benefits, a fundamental design …

unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on reemployment outcomes … benefit duration (PBD) within the German UI system, we find that longer PBD leads to longer actual unemployment duration for … for those individuals becoming re-employed. With increasing unemployment benefit duration, the founders’ outcomes in terms …

; necessity ; entrepreneurship …

world. Compared to existing models of this type, GEAR incorporates a comprehensive fiscal block, involuntary unemployment …

into entrepreneurship, we use changes in entry regulation into skilled trades. Estimation results are consistent with the …

Although a meaningful percentage of firms are created out of unemployment and current active labor market policies in … Europe often subsidize unemployed individuals to start their own businesses, little is known about the role of unemployment … extensive margin of (self-)employment and on unemployment duration. We find heterogeneous effects on the extensive margin: while …

Although a relevant share of firms is created out of unemployment and current active labor market policies in Europe … often subsidize unemployed individuals to start their own businesses, little is known about the role of unemployment … extensive margin of (self-)employment and on unemployment duration. We find heterogeneous effects on the extensive margin: while …

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 …