The trend toward digitalization not only changes the organization of work in areas such as production, services and logistics, but also the work situation of employees. To study such changes, data is needed at both the individual and corporate levels. The SOEP-LEE2 project contributes to research through a linked employer-employee study in combination with an establishment and self-employed survey ...
Die COVID-19-Pandemie hat das Leben vieler Menschen negativ beeinflusst. Wir untersuchen auf Basis einer Sonderbefragung des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP-CoV) die Folgen der Pandemie für die rund 4 Millionen Selbständigen in Deutschland. Selbständige erleiden pandemiebedingt deutlich häufiger Einkommensverluste als abhängig Beschäftigte. Selbständige Frauen sind wiederum deutlich stärker von Einkommensverlusten ...
When unemployed persons start businesses, they are often characterized as necessity entrepreneurs because push motives, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. Based on a panel data set of more than 2600 start-ups by unemployed persons, we show that not only push but also pull motives can be observed among previously unemployed business founders. Moreover, a third type of entrepreneur ...
Despite substantial research on job satisfaction in self-employment, we know little about the specific consequences for the venture when job satisfaction declines after an external shock. Taking the COVID-19 pandemic as an example of an external shock and drawing on a sample of nearly 7,000 self-employed individuals living in Germany, we investigate how declines in job satisfaction are related to investment ...
While Equity Crowdfunding (ECF) platforms are a virtual space for raising funds, geography remains relevant. To determine how location matters for entrepreneurs using equity crowdfunding (ECF), we analyze the spatial distribution of successful ECF campaigns and the spatial relationship between ECF campaigns and traditional investors, such as banks and venture capitalists (VCs). Using data from the ...
We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is – starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to three percentage-points lower for hourly wages in female-owned firms than in maleowned firms. Results are robust ...
