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only the end of unemployment for the new entrepreneur but also some further positive effects, e.g., direct job creation …
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Support schemes for unemployed aiming for self-employment have been recently reformed several times. In 2003, the start-up subsidy" was added to the existing bridging allowance". In 2006 both instruments were merged to the Gründungszuschuss". Since the bridging allowance has been evaluated as...
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This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment …
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The mild response of the German labor market to the worst global recession in post-war history appears as an economic miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to be a strong case of internal flexibility. We argue that important factors that have contributed to this development...
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Financing entrepreneurship spurs innovation and economic growth. Digital financial platforms that crowdfund equity for entrepreneurs have emerged globally, yet they remain poorly understood. We model equity crowdfunding in terms of the relationship between the number of investors and the amount...
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overdrafts - to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and non-financial household variables we show that self … that overdrafts are used by self-employed to finance their business as well. This indicates that intermingling constitutes …
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, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. In contrast to this, business founders who have been previously … unemployment. …
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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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Germany's recovery from an unemployment disease and its resilience to the Great Recession is remarkable. Its success …
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what extent business cycles or unemployment levels influence entries into entrepreneurship. Our analysis for Germany … reveals that there is a positive relationship between unemployment rates and start-up activities. Moreover, new business … disentangling periods of low and high unemployment we find that the effect of unemployment on new business formation is only …
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