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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Facts, Institutional Arrangements and Evaluation Strategies
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From Unemployment to Self-Employment
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Firm Start-Ups by the Unemployed
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Concluding Remarks
Keywords
About this book
The book presents an analysis of the transition from unemployment to self-employment and its subsidisation with the so-called "bridging allowance" in Germany. On the basis of econometric models, the determinants and the success of self-employment among former unemployed are estimated at the individual as well as at the firm level. By comparing different groups of the formerly unemployed, it becomes evident that self-employment is one successful route out of unemployment, as self-employment proves to be more stable than paid-employment. Therefore, the bridging allowance reaches its aim of regaining stable employment for the unemployed. However, this programme fails to create additional employment in the newly founded firms.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Leaving Unemployment for Self-Employment
Book Subtitle: An Empirical Study
Authors: Frank Reize
Series Title: ZEW Economic Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2685-2
Publisher: Physica Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7908-0168-2Published: 01 March 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-3-7908-2685-2Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1615-6781
Series E-ISSN: 1867-2027
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 241
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations
Topics: Labor Economics, Human Resource Management