TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Schnabel, Claus
AU  - Kohaut, Susanne
AU  - Brixy, Udo
        TI  - Employment Stability of Entrants in Newly Founded Firms: A Matching Approach Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany
        PY  - 2008/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3353
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp3353
        AB  - Using a linked employer-employee dataset and taking the perspective of individuals rather than firms, this paper analyzes some effects of joining start-ups. We show that entrants in new firms differ from those joining incumbent firms, and we use a matching approach to compare a group of employees joining new firms in 1995/96 with a control group entering incumbent firms. Our results indicate that individuals’ employment stability was higher in incumbent than in newly founded firms while their risk of becoming unemployed was lower. In particular in eastern Germany, joining firms that were older than six years was the best strategy.
        KW  - employment
KW  - newly founded firms
KW  - Germany
KW  - unemployment
KW  - linked employer-employee data
        ER  -