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Existenzgründungen als Weg aus der Beschäftigungskrise

Möckel, Carsten - 2005 - 1. Aufl.

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Langfristige Folgen einer Einbeziehung der Selbständigen in die gesetzliche Rentenversicherung

Kifmann, Mathias - 2001

This paper examines the consequences of including the self-employed in the German pay-as-you-go pension system. The effects on the implicit tax rate of the different generations and groups are analysed. It is demonstrated that the inclusion of the self-employed can be used to reach two...

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Existenzgründerpotentiale unter Arbeitsuchenden : empirische Evidenz auf der Basis des Mikrozensus

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 1999

In April 1995, 5.3 million people in Germany were on the lookout for a new job opportunity. 177,000 or nearly 3% of those were searching for an opportunity to get self-employed. In this study the determinants of the lookout for selfemployment in lieu of wage work are investigated separately for...

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Berufliche Weiterbildung und Existenzgründung

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reize, Frank - 1999

In Deutschland werden vielfach hohe Anforderungen an die berufliche Qualifikation von Existenzgründern gestellt. Im Handwerk, aber auch in bestimmten freiberuflich organisierten Tätigkeitsbereichen sind Existenzgründungen nur mit einem qualifizierten Berufsabschluß möglich. Darüber hinaus...

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FIML estimation of a bivariate probit selection rule : an application on firm growth and subsidisation

Reize, Frank - 2001

This study applies a full information maximum likelihood (FIML) estimator of the sample selection model with bivariate selection rule for the investigation of the impact of subsidised firm foundation from unemployment on employment growth of the firm. The empirical analysis is based on the ZEW...

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Entrepreneurship, economic risks, and risk-insurance in the welfare state

Ilmakunnas, Pekka; Kanniainen, Vesa; Lammi, Uki - 1999

We find strong evidence in the OECD country panel data to support the Knightian view that non-diversifiable economic risks shape the equilibrium entrepreneurship in an occupational choice model. Differential social insurance of entrepreneurial and labor risk is found to be statistically...

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Labor market assimilation and the self-employment decision of immigrant entrepreneurs

Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999

-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous … sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment decision are estimated. Variables for the proportion of immigrants in … consequently identify the inverse Mills correction term in the earnings models. Self-employed immigrants do substantially better in …

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Entrepreneurship from scratch : lessons on the entry decision into self-employment from transition economies

Earle, John S.; Saková, Zuzana - 1999

This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...

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A comparison of the human capital and signaling models : the case of the self-employed and the increase in the schooling premium in the 1980's

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000

This paper utilizes the self-employed to analyze the observed increase in the educational earnings premium in the 1980's. The paper compares the predictions of the signaling and human capital models in response to an exogenous demand shock such as a skill-biased technological change. Since the...

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Self-employment and earnings among high-skilled immigrants in the United States

Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000

-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high …-skilled natives are more likely to be self-employed than high-skilled immigrants. Models of the self-employment decision, controlling …. Predicted earnings of self-employed immigrants are higher throughout most of their work life relative to wage/salary immigrants …

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