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We introduce a duration model that allows for unobserved cumulative individual-specific shocks, which are likely to be important in explaining variations in duration outcomes, such as length of life and time spent unemployed. The model is also a useful tool in situations where researchers observe a great deal of information about individuals when first interviewed in surveys but little thereafter. ...
In:
Journal of Business & Economic Statistics
29 (2011), 2, 271-281
| Paul Frijters, John P. Haisken-DeNew, Michael A. Shields
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In:
Economic Journal
116 (2006), 508, 45-83
| Paul Frijters, Bas van der Klaauw
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We investigate how institutional change—the transition from a socialist system to a western type market economy—relates to the re-emergence of entrepreneurship in East Germany. This region is particularly well suited for such a study because of the rapid change of the institutional framework and the possibility to use West Germany as a benchmark. It took about 15 years until self-employment levels ...
In:
Small Business Economics
43 (2014), 2, 427-446
| Michael Fritsch, Elisabeth Bublitz, Alina Sorgner, Michael Wyrwich
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In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch (Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of German Socio-Economic Panel Study Users, ed. by Büchel, Felix; D'Ambrosio, Conchita and Frick, Joachim R.)
125 (2005), 1, 87-95
| Ingo Geishecker
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In:
Labour Economics
15 (2008), 3, 291-314
| Ingo Geishecker
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This paper analyzes the impact of job insecurity perceptions on individual well-being. In contrast to previous studies, we explicitly take into account perceptions about both the likelihood and the potential costs of job loss and demonstrate that most contributions to the literature suffer from simultaneity bias. When accounting for simultaneity, we find the true unbiased effect of perceived job insecurity ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2010,
(SOEPpapers 282)
| Ingo Geishecker
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The paper assesses perceived job insecurity as a determinant of current subjective well-being and demonstrates that standard models may yield significantly downward biased estimates.
In:
Economics Letters
116 (2012), 3, 319-321
| Ingo Geishecker
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Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2004,
(IZA DP No. 982)
| Ingo Geishecker, Holger Görg
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In:
The North American Journal of Economics and Finance
16 (2005), 1, 81-92
| Ingo Geishecker, Holger Görg
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In:
Canadian Journal of Economics
41 (2008), 1, 243-270
| Ingo Geishecker, Holger Görg