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| Title: | | Self-employment: A Way to End Unemployment? Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data  |
| Authors: | | Glocker, Daniela Steiner, Viktor |
| Issue Date: | | 2007 |
| Series/Report no.: | | DIW-Diskussionspapiere 661 |
| Abstract: | | 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. |
| Subjects: | | self-employment entrepreneurship entry rate start-ups unemployment pseudopanel age and cohort effects |
| JEL: | | C35 J64 J23 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des DIW DIW-Diskussionspapiere
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