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What makes an entrepreneur and does it pay? : native men, Turks, and other migrants in Germany
Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - 2003
This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439390
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New Gig Work or Changes in Reporting? Understanding Self-Employment Trends in Tax Data
Garin, Andrew; Jackson, Emilie; Koustas, Dmitri - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
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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Public health insurance and entry into self-employment
Fossen, Frank M.; König, Johannes - 2015
insurance system on the entry rate into entrepreneurship. In Germany, the public health insurance system is mandatory for most … points, i.e. about a third of the average annual entry rate. The results show that the phenomenon of entrepreneurship lock …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010474213
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Do entrepreneurs really earn less?
Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander - 2014
employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438045
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The medium-term impact of entrepreneurship education on labor market outcomes : experimental evidence from university graduates in Tunisia
Alaref, Jumana; Brodmann, Stefanie; Premand, Patrick - 2019
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004724
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German financial state aid during COVID-19 pandemic : higher impact among digitalized self-employed
Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013399812
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Emergency aid for self-employed in the COVID-19 pandemic : a flash in the pan?
Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; Priem, Maximilian; … - 2020
The self-employed are among those facing the highest probability of strong income losses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Governments in many countries introduced support programs to support the self-employed, including the German federal government, which approved a €50bn emergency aid program...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012406215
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Why did self-employment increase so strongly in Germany?
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Sorgner, Alina - 2015 - This version: January 2015
Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification. Applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we find that the main factors driving these changes in the overall level of self-employment are demographic...
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Would a flat tax stimulate entrepreneurship in Germany? : a behavioural microsimulation analysis allowing for risk
Fossen, Frank M. (contributor) - 2008
When possible income tax reforms are debated, the suspected impact on entrepreneurship is often used as an argument in … entrepreneurship based on microeconometric research have not been provided by the literature, however. This paper estimates the ex … taxation. -- Entrepreneurship ; income taxation, risk ; tax reform 2000 ; flat tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003725962
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Businesswomen in Germany and their performance by ethnicity : it pays to be self-employed
Constant, Amelie (contributor) - 2008
, success does not depend on their ethnicity. -- Businesswomen ; Entrepreneurship ; Self-employment ; Economics of Minorities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003776591