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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 …
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Self-employment: a way to end unemployment? Empirical evidence from German pseudo-panel data
Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - 2007
basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period 1996-2002. The estimation method accounts for cohort fixed effects and …
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Marginal employment' and the demand for heterogenous labour: Empirical evidence from a multi-factor labour demand model for Germany
Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - 2007
marginal employment range between -.4 (number of male workers in west Germany) to -1 (working hours for women). We illustrate …' social security contributions (SSC) on marginal employment in Germany. …
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Funding self-employment: The role of consumer credit
Kneiding, Christoph; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2011
This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans - in particular instalment loans and overdrafts - to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and non-financial household variables we show that self-employed households particularly use personal overdrafts...
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Endogenous exit bias in training programs for unemployed workers
Kluve, Jochen; Rinne, Ulf; Uhlendorff, Arne; Zhao, Zhong - 2012
This paper assesses the importance of reverse causality when evaluating the impact of training duration for unemployed workers. We use planned duration as an instrumental variable for actual duration. Our results suggest that the potential endogeneity of exits seems to be only relevant in the...
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