Leaving Unemployment for Self-Employment - An Empirical Study

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.

List of contents

I: Facts, Institutional Arrangements and Evaluation Strategies.- 1 Overview and Introduction.- 2 Unemployment, Self-Employment and Bridging Allowance.- 3 Previous Empirical Findings on the Transition from Unemployment to Self-Employment.- 4 Evaluation Strategies.- II: From Unemployment to Self-Employment.- 5 Theoretical Framework - An Extended Search Model.- 6 Determinants and Success of Self-Employment.- III: Firm Start-Ups by the Unemployed.- 7 Microeconomic Issues on Firm Start-Ups.- 8 Assessing the Impact of Bridging Allowance at the Firm Level.- IV: Concluding Remarks.- 9 Political Options and Future Research.- List of Figures.- List of Tables.

Product details

• Authors: Frank Reize
• Publisher: Physica-Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2004
• EAN: 9783790801682
• ISBN: 978-3-7908-0168-2
• No. of pages: 241
• Weight: 396 g
• Illustrations: XI, 241 p. 19 illus.
• Series: ZEW Economic Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; C, Human Resource Management, Economics and Finance, Personnel & human resources management, Personnel Management, Management science, Labor Economics