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Does solo self-employment serve as a "stepping stone" to employership?
Cowling, Michael Leith; Wooden, Mark - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 68 (2021)
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The dynamics of solo self-employment : persistence and transition to employership
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Wunder, Christoph - 2016
This study examines dynamics of solo self-employment. In particular, we investigate the extent of true state dependence and cross state dependence, i.e., whether experiencing solo self-employment causally affects the probability of becoming an employer in the future. We use data from the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011474259
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The dynamics of solo self-employment: Persistence and transition to employership
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Wunder, Christoph - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 49 (2017), pp. 95-105
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011950914
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Does Solo Self-Employment Serve as a 'Stepping Stone' to Employership?
Cowling, Michael Leith; Wooden, Mark - 2019
employing household data from Germany by Lechmann and Wunder (2017). Estimates of true cross-state dependence between solo self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180034
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Self-employment dynamics, state dependence and cross-mobility patterns
Caliendo, Marco; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2008
West Germany, we find strong true state dependence in all three states. Moreover, compared to wage employment, non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011634163
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Ethnic minority self-employment in Germany : geographical distribution and determinants of regional variation
Bruder, Jana; Räthke-Döppner, Solvig - 2008
In Germany self-employment among foreigners increased significantly in recent years. We study the geographical … distribution of ethnic minority self-employment in Germany and find determinants for variations in start-up activities across 440 … ; Entrepreneurship ; Germany ; Count Data Model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003886976
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Personality traits, self-employment, and professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010
We investigate the effect of broad personality traits' - the Big Five - on an individua's decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of self-employment varies considerably across professions, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688983
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Are education and entrepreneurial income endogenous and do family background variables make sense as instruments? : a Bayesian analysis
Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: February 2010
Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826247
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Personality traits, self-employment, and professions
Fritsch, Michael; Rusakova, Alina - 2010
We investigate the effect of broad personality traits - the Big Five - on an individual's decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of selfemployment varies considerably across professions, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826989
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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580116