Turning unemployment into self-employment has become a major focus of German active labour market policy (ALMP) in … recent years. If effective, this would not only reduce Germany’s persistently high unemployment rate, but also increase its …

This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment …

effort ; reservation wage ; locus of control ; unemployment duration …

Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies …

, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. In contrast to this, business founders who have been previously … unemployment. -- Entrepreneurship ; push and pull motives ; survival and failure ; job creation …

The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed … entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite … the disincentive effect of UI on unemployment duration, UI benefit generosity may also increase job match quality by …

incentives due to higher net earnings. Additional earnings during unemployment might lead to higher reservation wages prolonging … the duration of unemployment, yet also giving unemployed individuals more time to search for better and more stable jobs … evaluate the impact of marginal employment on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality, we consider a sample of fresh …

relationship between the network size and reservation wages. -- Job search behavior ; unemployment ; social networks …