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Schooling and citizenship : evidence from compulsory schooling reforms

Siedler, Thomas - 2007

This paper examines whether schooling has a positive impact on individual's political interest, voting turnout, democratic values, political involvement and political group membership, using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). Between 1949 and 1969 the number of compulsory years of...

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Determinants of protests : longitudinal evidence from Ukraine‘s Orange Revolution

Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman - 2011

two different -and equally interesting- features of the revolution: the determinants of participation (both in the … participation). We consider different drivers of participation, from traditional proxies for opportunities and grievances, but we … connectivity. What emerges from this study is a more nuanced pattern of participation that does not link uniquely to a single …

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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 favour or against a certain policy. Quantitative ex-ante evaluations of the effect of certain tax reform options on entrepreneurship based on microeconometric research have not...

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Businesswomen in Germany and their performance by ethnicity : it pays to be self-employed

Constant, Amelie (contributor) - 2008

In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried businesswomen - and investigate whether ethnicity is important in...

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Die reformierte Gründungsförderung für Arbeitslose : Chancen und Risiken

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - 2009

Support schemes for unemployed persons aiming to become self-employed have been recently reformed several times. In 2003, the "start-up-subsidy" (Existenzgründungszuschuss) was added to the existing "bridging-allowance" (Überbrückungsgeld) and the two programs to-gether led to a strong...

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Gender differences in entrepreneurial choice and risk aversion : a decomposition based on a microeconometric model

Fossen, Frank M. - 2009

Why are female entrepreneurs so rare? Women have both to a lower entry rate into selfemployment and a higher exit rate in Germany. To explain the gender gap, a structural microeconometric model of the transition rates is estimated, which includes a standard risk aversion parameter. As inputs...

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Self-employment - a way to end unemployment? : empirical evidence from German pseudo-panel data

Glocker, Daniela (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2007

This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into self-employment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period...

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Is entrepreneurial success predictable? : an ex-ante analysis of the character-based approach

Caliendo, Marco (contributor); … - 2007

This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal...

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Turning unemployment into self-employment : effectiveness and efficiency of two start-up programmes

Baumgartner, Hans J. (contributor); … - 2007

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 notoriously low self-employment rate. Empirical...

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Precautionary and entrepreneurial saving : new evidence from German households

Fossen, Frank M.; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2009

The well-documented positive correlation between income risk and wealth was interpreted as evidence for high amounts of precautionary wealth in various studies. However, the large estimates emerged from pooling non-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs without controlling for heterogeneity. This paper...

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