Self-employment
Subtitle: a way to end unemployment? empirical evidence from German pseudo-panel data
By: by Daniela Glocker, Viktor Steiner.
Contributors: Steiner, Viktor.
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 2561; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 2561
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Self-employed -- Germany.; Unemployment -- Germany.
Description: "This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into self-employment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period 1996-2002. The estimation method accounts for cohort fixed effects and measurement errors induced by the pseudo panel structure. We find that previous (long-term) unemployment significantly increases entry rates into self-employment for both men and women. These effects are quantitatively important, both in absolute terms and compared to other potential determinants of self-employment transitions, such as age, the level of vocational qualification and certain household characteristics"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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