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Die Arbeitsplatzeffekte von Gründungen : ein Überblick über den Stand der Forschung
Fritsch, Michael - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003588018
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Die Heterogenität der Effizienz innerhalb von Branchen : eine Auswertung von Unternehmensdaten der Kostenstrukturerhebung im verarbeitenden Gewerbe
Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003541916
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Self-Employment after Socialism : Intergenerational Links, Entrepreneurial Values, and Human Capital
Fritsch, Michael - 2012
post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the socialist regime significantly damaged this mechanism of an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104020
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Stepping Forward : Personality Traits, Choice of Profession, and the Decision to Become Self-Employed
Fritsch, Michael - 2013
We argue that entrepreneurial choice proceeds in at least in two steps, with vocational choice nearly always preceding choice of employment status, whether that be self-employment or dependent employment. Since the two decisions are interrelated, analysis of entrepreneurial choice as a single...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086982
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Low-Wage Jobs – Stepping Stone or Poverty Trap?
Knabe, Andreas - 2014
We examine whether low-paid jobs have an effect on the occupational advancement probability of unemployed persons to obtain better-paid jobs in the future (stepping-stone effect). We make use of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and apply a dynamic random-effects probit model. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068798
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Measuring Income in Household Panel Surveys for Germany : A Comparison of EU-SILC and SOEP
Frick, Joachim R. - 2010
Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increasing extent, using … Germany. The - in some cases severe - differences identified are discussed in the context of the surveying and interviewing … exert a major influence on the substantive results and thus on the core findings regarding the social situation of Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148703
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Unemployment as a Social Norm in Germany
Clark, Andrew; Knabe, Andreas; Raetzel, Steffen - 2008
negatively affected. This is consistent with a social-norm effect of unemployment in Germany. We find no evidence of such an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213442
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To Claim or Not to Claim : Estimating Non-Take-Up of Social Assistance in Germany and the Role of Measurement Error
Frick, Joachim R.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2008
-take-up behaviour of Social Assistance (SA) in Germany. According to our simulation as much as 67 percent of the eligible population did …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220097
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Quantifying the Psychological Costs of Unemployment : The Role of Permanent Income
Knabe, Andreas; Raetzel, Steffen - 2008
Unemployment causes significant losses in the quality of life. In addition to reducing individual income, it also creates non-pecuniary, psychological costs. We quantify these non-pecuniary losses by using the life satisfaction approach. In contrast to previous studies, we apply Friedman's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220104
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The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) - Evolution, Scope and Enhancements
Wagner, Gert G.; Frick, Joachim R.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2010
After the introduction in Section 2, we very briefly sketch out current theoretical and empirical developments in the social sciences. In our view, they all point in the same direction: toward the acute and increasing need for multidisciplinary longitudinal data covering a wide range of living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014222824