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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282293
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Do Entrepreneurs Really Earn Less?
Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2014
Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468177
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Why Did Self-Employment Increase so Strongly in Germany?
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Sorgner, Alina - 2015
Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500317
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Why Did Self-Employment Increase so Strongly in Germany?
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Sorgner, Alina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271989
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Who Starts a Business and Who is Self-Employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rusakova, Alina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646322
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Do Entrepreneurs Really Earn Less?
Sorgner, Alina; Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011094088
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A new framework for the analysis of inequality
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James Joseph - 2007
This paper presents a new framework for analyzing inequality that moves beyond the anonymity postulate. We estimate the determinants of sectoral choice and the joint distributions of outcomes across sectors. We determine which components of realized earnings variability are due to uncertainty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267918
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Economic, neurobiological and behavioral perspectives on building America's future workforce
Knudsen, Eric I.; Heckman, James Joseph; Cameron, Judy L.; … - 2006
A growing proportion of the U.S. workforce will have been raised in disadvantaged environments that are associated with relatively high proportions of individuals with diminished cognitive and social skills. A cross-disciplinary examination of research in economics, developmental psychology, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274240
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The productivity argument for investing in young children
Heckman, James Joseph; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - 2007
This paper presents a productivity argument for investing in disadvantaged young children. For such investment, there is no equity-efficiency tradeoff.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274242
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The evolution of inequality, heterogeneity and uncertainty in labor earnings in the US economy
Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James Joseph - 2007
A large empirical literature documents a rise in wage inequality in the American economy. It is silent on whether the increase in inequality is due to greater heterogeneity in the components of earnings that are predictable by agents or whether it is due to greater uncertainty faced by agents....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274243