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        %A Glocker, Daniela
%A Steiner, Viktor
        %T Self-Employment: A Way to End Unemployment? Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data
        %D 2007
        %8 2007 Jan
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 2561
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2561
        %X This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into self-employment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period 1996-2002. The estimation method accounts for cohort fixed effects and measurement errors induced by the pseudo panel structure. We find that previous (long-term) unemployment significantly increases entry rates into self-employment for both men and women. These effects are quantitatively important, both in absolute terms and compared to other potential determinants of self-employment transitions, such as age, the level of vocational qualification and certain household characteristics.
        %K self-employment
%K entrepreneurship
%K entry rate
%K start-ups
%K unemployment
%K pseudo-panel
%K age and cohort effects