TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Glocker, Daniela
AU  - Steiner, Viktor
        TI  - Self-Employment: A Way to End Unemployment? Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data
        PY  - 2007/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2561
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2561
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - self-employment
KW  - entrepreneurship
KW  - entry rate
KW  - start-ups
KW  - unemployment
KW  - pseudo-panel
KW  - age and cohort effects
        ER  -