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In the last few decades, Germany, similar to other developed countries, has been witnessing a sharp decline of the jobs … studies what happened to the workers in codified occupations in terms of unemployment, occupational change, and wages. Second … job codification is associated with higher unemployment and higher occupational change. It is also associated with wage …
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This paper investigates the relation between changes in self-employment and changes in unemployment at the regional … distinguish between two directions of causality. On the one hand increases in self-employment may contribute to lower unemployment … rates (the 'entrepreneurial' effect). On the other hand, higher unemployment rates may push individuals into self …
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This paper investigates the relation between changes in self-employment and changes in unemployment at the regional … between two directions of causality. On the one hand increases in self-employment may contribute to lower unemployment rates … (the "entrepreneurial" effect). On the other hand, higher unemployment rates may push individuals into self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090596
Human capital is transferable across occupations, but only to a limited extent because of differences in occupational skill-profiles. Higher skill overlap between occupations renders less of individuals' human capital useless in occupational switches. Current occupational distance measures...
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Human capital is transferable across occupations, but only to a limited extent because of differences in occupational skill-profiles. Higher skill overlap between occupations renders less of individuals' human capital useless in occupational switches. Current occupational distance measures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008483759
in regional employment within a rich vocational education setting in West Germany during 1979 and 2012. Results confirm … occupations has been the greatest, in Germany there is a greater trend towards occupational upgrading and larger growth in …
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This paper examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively and systematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276297
This paper examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively and systematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864522
This paper examines to what extent recent empirical evidence can collectively and systematically substantiate the claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090524
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2011, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socio … 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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