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German financial state aid during COVID-19 pandemic : higher impact among digitalized self-employed

Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022

In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the...

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Income tax noncompliance in Germany, 2001-2014

Fauser, Hannes; Godar, Sarah - 2021

This paper estimates income tax underreporting for the case of Germany, by income category and along the income …

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On the misery of losing self-employment

Hetschko, Clemens - 2014

German panel data is used to show that the decrease in life satisfaction caused by an increase in the probability of losing work is higher when self-employed than when paid employed. Further estimations reveal that becoming unemployed reduces self-employed workers ́satisfaction considerably...

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Entry regulation and entrepreneurship : empirical evidence from a German natural experiment

Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2010

The amendment to the German Trade and Crafts Code in 2004 offers a natural experiment to asses the causal effects of this reform on the probabilities of being self-employed and transition into and out of self-employment, using cross-sections (2002-2006) of German microcensus data. This study...

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Personality characteristics and the decision to become and stay self-employed

Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2011

into self-employment and survival of self-employed persons in Germany. The empirical analysis reveals that among the …

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Atypical employment in Europe 1996 - 2011

Allmendinger, Jutta; Hipp, Lena; Stuth, Stefan - 2013

To assess the influence of nonstandard employment for the labor market participation of different demographic groups, we provide detailed descriptions of the development of atypical employment in comparison to standard employment, unemployment, and economic inactivity between 1996 and 2011. In...

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Business start-ups by the unemployed : an econometric analysis based on firm data

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reize, Frank - 1998

This study investigates firm survival and employment growth of start-ups by unemployed people in East and West Germany … 1995 and could be observed at least one year after their foundation in 4 regions of East and 11 regions of West Germany. In …

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The long-term costs of government surveillance : insights from stasi spying in East Germany

Lichter, Andreas; Löffler, Max; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2019 - This version: August 2019

case of the Stasi in East Germany. Exploiting regional variation in the number of spies and administrative features of the … institutional trust in post-reunification Germany. We also find substantial and long-lasting economic effects of Stasi surveillance …

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Business start-ups by the unemployed - an econometric analysis based on firm data

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 1998

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Existenzgründerpotentiale unter Arbeitsuchenden : empirische Evidenz auf der Basis des Mikrozensus

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 1999

In April 1995, 5.3 million people in Germany were on the lookout for a new job opportunity. 177,000 or nearly 3% of … selfemployment in lieu of wage work are investigated separately for East and West Germany. Using the 70 %-ZEW-sample of the … factors like age, sex and education, on the status in the labour market. In 1991 in East Germany the probability of aspiring …

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