Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being used as the most common proxy for "entrepreneurship" in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining self-employment, making it a somewhat dubious proxy. This...

Die Begriffe Arbeitslosigkeit und Erwerbslosigkeit werden im deutschen Sprachraum nicht synonym verwendet. Die Arbeitslosenquote errechnet sich anhand der registrierten Arbeitslosen, die international teilweise erheblich unterschiedlich abgegrenzt sind. International vergleichbar sind nur die...

Studies of transition economy labor markets have typically relied on standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics. This paper analyzes microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative...

Die Lage am ostdeutschen Arbeitsmarkt hat sich seit 2005 deutlich verbessert und präsentierte sich auch in Zeiten der Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise als äußerst robust. Zur Beurteilung der Arbeitsmarktlage bedarf es eines Indikators, der sich zum einen durch einen geringen Revisionsbedarf...

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of transition economy labor markets have typically relied upon. We analyze microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard,...

Academic literature on foreign exchange market intervention in emerging market countries has grown in recent years. Until now, existing studies have ignored the possible feature of time varying motives and impact effects for/of interventions as well as the relationship to underlying economic and...