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Are the self-employed really jacks-of-all-trades? Testing the assumptions and implications of Lazear's theory of entrepreneurship with German data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2011

Using a large representative German data set and various concepts of self-employment, this paper tests the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self-employed individuals perform more tasks and that their work...

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What explains the gender earnings gap in self-employment? A decomposition analysis with German data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2012

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in …

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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rusakova, Alina - 2012

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …

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Fly Me to the Moon : The Determinants of Secondary Jobholding in Germany and the UK

Heineck, Guido; Schwarze, Johannes - 2004

This paper analyzes the determinants of secondary jobholding in Germany and the UK. Although differing in labor market …

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Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics: Experimental evidence from Sri Lanka

De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012

We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...

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Start-up success of freelancers: new microeconometric evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Merz, Joachim; Paic, Peter - 2006

If certain start-up characteristics will indicate a business success, knowing such characteristics could generate more successful start-ups and more efficient start-up counseling. Our study will contribute to this by quantifying individual success determinants of freelance start-ups. The data...

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Self-employment: a way to end unemployment? Empirical evidence from German pseudo-panel data

Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - 2007

basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period 1996-2002. The estimation method accounts for cohort fixed effects and …

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Start-ups by the unemployed: characteristics, survival and direct employment effects

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2007

,100 start-ups founded by unemployed persons in Germany. Individuals were subsidized under two different schemes, and we are able …

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Die reformierte Gründungsförderung für Arbeitslose: Chancen und Risiken

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2007

Support schemes for unemployed aiming for self-employment have been recently reformed several times. In 2003, the start-up subsidy" was added to the existing bridging allowance". In 2006 both instruments were merged to the Gründungszuschuss". Since the bridging allowance has been evaluated as...

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Turning unemployment into self-employment: Effectiveness and efficiency of two start-up programmes

Baumgartner, Hans J.; Caliendo, Marco - 2007

recent years. If effective, this would not only reduce Germany's persistently high unemployment rate, but also increase its … the unemployed into self-employment may prove to be among the most effective, both in Germany and elsewhere. …

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