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Self-Employment Dynamics Across the Business Cycle: Migrants Versus Natives

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dc.creator Constant, Amelie F.
dc.creator Zimmermann, Klaus F.
dc.date 2004
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T06:59:27Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T06:59:27Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18307
dc.identifier ppn:472429248
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18307
dc.description Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or self-employed. We are interested in the dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment are absorbing states. However, innovations, structural changes and business cycles generate strong adjustment processes that lead to fluctuations between employment and self-employment, directly or through the unemployment state. Migrants are more likely to be sensitive to adjustment pressures than natives, since they have less stable jobs and choose more often self-employment to avoid periods of unemployment. These issues are investigated using a huge micro data set generated from 19 waves of the German Socioeconomic Panel. The findings suggest that the conditional probabilities of entry into selfemployment are more than twice as high from the status of unemployment as from the status of employment. Self-employment is also an important channel back to regular employment. Business cycle effects strongly impact the employment transition matrix, and migrants take a larger part in the adjustment process. They use self-employment as a mechanism to circumvent and escape unemployment and to integrate into the host country's labor market.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin
dc.relation DIW-Diskussionspapiere 455
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject E32
dc.subject M13
dc.subject J61
dc.subject J23
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject Self-employment
dc.subject entrepreneurship
dc.subject business cycle
dc.subject migration
dc.subject Markov chain analysis
dc.subject Selbstständige
dc.subject Erwerbsstatus
dc.subject Konjunktur
dc.subject Ethnische Gruppe
dc.subject Panel
dc.subject Deutschland
dc.title Self-Employment Dynamics Across the Business Cycle: Migrants Versus Natives
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper
dc.coverage 1984-2002


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