Employment Stability of Entrants in Newly Founded Firms: A Matching Approach Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany
Claus Schnabel,
Susanne Kohaut () and
Udo Brixy ()
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Susanne Kohaut: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg
No 3353, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Abstract:
Using a linked employer-employee dataset and taking the perspective of individuals rather than firms, this paper analyzes some effects of joining start-ups. We show that entrants in new firms differ from those joining incumbent firms, and we use a matching approach to compare a group of employees joining new firms in 1995/96 with a control group entering incumbent firms. Our results indicate that individuals’ employment stability was higher in incumbent than in newly founded firms while their risk of becoming unemployed was lower. In particular in eastern Germany, joining firms that were older than six years was the best strategy.
Keywords: employment; newly founded firms; Germany; unemployment; linked employer-employee data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J63 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2008-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-ent and nep-lab
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Published - published in: Small Business Economics, 2011, 36(1), 85-100
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Working Paper: Employment stability of entrants in newly founded firms: a matching approach using linked employer-employee data from Germany (2008)
Working Paper: Employment stability of entrants in newly founded firms: a matching approach using linked employer-employee data from Germany (2008)
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