reforms should have had an effect on the employment duration within temporary work agencies. Based on an informative … administrative data set we use hazard rate models to examine whether the employment duration has changed in response to these reforms … employment duration while the authorization of fixed-term contracts reduced employment tenure …

employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups because of different levels of control …

development. On the basis of a large, representative household panel survey, we examine the extent to which the Big Five traits … into self-employment and survival of self-employed persons in Germany. The empirical analysis reveals that among the … parental self-employment …

Temporary agency employment has grown steadily in most European countries over the past three decades as part of the … general trend towards increased employment flexibility. Yet to this day, it remains an open question what drives the demand … for temporary agency workers. The paper examines, first, whether the deregulation of temporary agency employment is …

lefthand 2D:4D and self-employment (in a sample of about 1,000 adults). In this preregistered study we replicate these results … no statistically significant associations between 2D:4D and self-employment and thus cannot confirm the findings of … change in self-employment for a one standard deviation change in the 2D:4D when we pool results for men and women (the …

analyse the effect of the tax cuts on transitions into and out of self-employment and on the rate of self-employment. We apply … indicate that the decrease in tax rates did not have a significant effect on the self-employment decision …

Entry rates into self-employment increase during recessions and decrease during economic upswings. I show that this is … persons have a relatively high propensity to become entrepreneurs out of necessity because they do not find paid employment. I …