Leaving unemployment for self-employment: a discrete duration analysis of determinants and stability of self-employment among former unemployed

Arbeitspapier

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.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 00-26

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft
• Thema: Selbstständige ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Dauer ; Schätzung ; Deutschland

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Reize, Frank
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
• (wo): Mannheim
• (wann): 2000

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/24371
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ