This paper investigates the dynamic interrelationship between self-employment and unemployment rates. On the one hand, unemployment rates may stimulate start-up activity of self-employed. On the other hand, higher rates of self-employment may indicate increased entrepreneurial activity reducing...

The process of the entrepreneurial decision is decomposed in seven engagement levels ranging from "never thought about starting a business" to "gave up", "thinking about it", "taking steps for starting up", "having a young business", "having an older business" and "no longer being an...

Recent research based on aggregate data suggests that employment in young firms is more negatively impacted during economic crises than employment in incumbent firms. Using firm-level data, we show that under constant human capital of the firms' founders, employment growth in less than 1...

In den vergangenen Monaten konnte ein regelrechter Boom bei geförderten Existenzgründungen ehemals Arbeitsloser beobachtet werden. Ein Grund hierfür liegt in der Einführung der sogenannten Ich-AG, welche niedrigere Eintrittsbarrieren vorweist als das bereits länger bestehende...

Die Neigung zu unternehmerischer Selbstständigkeit ist in den ostdeutschen Flächenländern deutlich geringer als in Westdeutschland. Wenn sich hieran nichts ändert, droht vielen Unternehmen in Ostdeutschland in den kommenden Jahren demographiebedingt die Schließung. In diesem Artikel werden...

This paper provides an exploratory analysis on the relationship between educational qualification and work status in Italy, with a particular focus on entrepreneurs and self-employed workers. Rough data are drawn from four waves (1995, 1998, 2002, and 2004) of the Survey of Household Income and...

The paper introduces a model of enterprise formation in a unionized economy with labor protection and wage bargaining. Enterprise formation is subject to future market risk and is shaped by labor market institutions in the post-entry stage. The predictions of the model are tested in...

This paper shows that labor market institutions are important for the formation of new enterprises. The effects of labor market institutions on entrepreneurship, wage determination, and firm size are analysed analytically and illustrated numerically. The main result is that an increase in union...

The process of the entrepreneurial decision is decomposed in seven engagement levels ranging from never thought about starting a business to gave up, thinking about it, taking steps for starting up, having a young business, having an older business and no longer being an entrepreneur. By using a...