In der vorliegenden Publikation wird auf Basis der Hochschulabsolventenbefragungen der Jahre 2007, 2009 und 2011 sowohl das Ausmass der Selbstständigkeit als auch die berufliche Situation von selbstständig erwerbstätigen Hochschulabsolventinnen und -absolventen fünf Jahre nach Abschluss des...

Purpose: To investigate the gender impact of tertiary education on the probability of entering and remaining in self employment. Design/methodology/approach: We exploit a data set on labour market flows produced by the Italian National Statistical Office by interviewing about 62,000 graduate and...

In economies characterized by low labor demand and high rates of youth unemployment, entrepreneurship training has the potential to enable youth to gain skills and create their own jobs. This paper presents experimental evidence on a new entrepreneurship track that provides business training and...

We investigate gender differences among Italian self employed graduates focusing on flow data from a ten-year labor market transition matrix (1993-2003). Our data show that tertiary education increases the share of self employment in total employment for male workers but reduces the share for...