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Gambling and the use of credit: an individual and household level analysis
Brown, Sarah; Dickerson, Andy; McHardy, Jolian; Taylor, Karl - 2010
use of credit, at the individual and household level using representative pooled cross-section data drawn from the UK … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … between gambling and the use of credit is remarkably stable across household income. In addition to our household level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271301
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Intergenerational mobility of immigrants in Germany: moving with natives or stuck in their neighborhoods?
Yuksel, Mutlu - 2009
In this paper, I analyze intergenerational mobility of immigrants and natives in Germany. Using the German … Germany than in the U.S. However, as in the U.S., I find greater mobility among German natives than among immigrants. Moreover …, I investigate to what extent the lower mobility among immigrants in Germany is due to ethnic capital as suggested by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269398
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282216
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People People : Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups
Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas; Weinberg, Bruce A. - 2005
Despite indications that interpersonal interactions are important for understanding individual labor-market outcomes and have become more important over the last decades, there is little analysis by economists. This paper shows that interpersonal interactions are important determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262210
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Social Capital and the Uncertainty Reduction of Self-Employment
Blumberg, Boris F.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2001
We study the self-employed decision and its relation to human and social capital. Human capital is necessary to acquire skills. Social capital dampens the effects of uncertainty about future income. Our data set consists of 1339 respondents from the same age group, who were interviewed three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262509
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The impact of social capital on crime: evidence from the Netherlands
Akçomak, I. Semih; ter Weel, Bas - 2008
This paper investigates the relation between social capital and crime. The analysis contributes to explaining why crime is so heterogeneous across space. By employing current and historical data for Dutch municipalities and by providing novel indicators to measure social capital, we find a link...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277209
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Are Nascent Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-All-Trades? A Test of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data
Wagner, Joachim - 2003
representative sample of the German population. The empirical estimation takes the rare events nature of becoming a nascent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261621
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Are Young and Small Firms Hothouses for Nascent Entrepreneurs? Evidence from German Micro Data
Wagner, Joachim - 2004
empirical estimation takes the rare events nature of becoming a nascent entrepreneur and the regional stratification of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261762
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Unwilling or Unable? : Spatial, Institutional and Socio-Economic Restrictions on Females' Labor Market Access
van Ham, Maarten; Büchel, Felix - 2004
We analyze the effects of regional structures on both females? willingness to work and the probability of being employed for those willing to work. Special permission was granted to link regional data to individual respondents in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Results of a bivariate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261801
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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Bonin, Holger - 2004
Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261862