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Unemployment Insurance and Entrepreneurship

Røed, Knut; Skogstrøm, Jens Fredrik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

programs (ALMP) affect the transition rates from unemployment to regular employment and entrepreneurship. We find that the … entrepreneurship hazard is highly responsive with respect to UI incentives, and that the probability of starting up a new business … employment hazard, it has no effect on entrepreneurship. We speculate that this reflects the programs' one-sided focus on job …

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Self-Employment: A Way to End Unemployment? Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data

Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 selfemployment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period...

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The Impact of Risk Aversion, Role Models, and the Regional Milieu on the Transition from Unemployment to Self-Employment: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

The focus of this paper is on the choice of the unemployed between becoming an entrepreneur or not. It contributes to the literature by empirically investigating two hitherto neglected issues: What is the impact of risk aversion and personal contact with a role model in shaping the decision to...

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Creative Unemployment

Røed, Knut; Skogstrøm, Jens Fredrik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We examine the impact of job loss on entrepreneurship behavior in Norway. Our identification strategy relies on the use …

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Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions, and the Great Recession

Fairlie, Robert W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

opportunities in the wage/salary sector leaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdata … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed light on this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a major determinant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase the probability …

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