Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/24371 
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Year of Publication: 
2000
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ZEW Discussion Papers No. 00-26
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Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
The paper investigates the determinants and the success of self-employment among former unemployed. Self-employment has become an important re-employment opportunity during the last decade due to increasing subsidies. The econometric analysis is carried out using discrete hazard rate models on 14 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel, covering the period from 1983 to 1996. I do not find any effects of unemployment duration on the transition from unemployment to selfemployment. Moreover, unemployed people entering self-employment have higher skills than the average of the unemployed population and self-employment seems to be more stable than paid-employment would have been because people face a lower risk of becoming unemployed again.
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Working Paper

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