Self-Employment Dynamics Across the Business Cycle: Migrants Versus Natives
Using a micro data set generated from 19 waves of the German Socioeconomic Panel, the authors investigate self-employment dynamics. Findings suggest that the conditional probabilities of entry into self-employment are more than twice as high from the status of unemployment as from the status
of employment.
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