News - Archive

2011
Dec 29 New Discussion Paper: Fighting Youth Unemployment: The Effects of Active Labour Market Policies [with S. Künn and R. Schmidl]. [more...]
Oct 18 New Discussion Paper: Alte Idee, neues Programm: Der Gründungszuschuss als Nachfolger von Überbrückungsgeld und Ich-AG [with J. Hogenacker, S. Künn and F. Wießner] [more...]
Oct 17 New Published Papers: IZA Discussion Papers 5165, 5400, 5485 are now published in a special issue of the International Journal of Manpower [more]. [more...1][...2][...3]
Oct 05 My new homepage at the University of Potsdam is now online at: http://www.uni-potsdam.de/empwifo.
Jun 22 New Discussion Paper: Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality: New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research [with A. Kritikos] [more...]
Jun 21 New Discussion Paper: Fat Chance! Obesity and the Transition from Unemployment to Employment [with W.S. Lee] [more...]
Jun 15 Job openings: 3 positions for PhD students (Akademische Mitarbeiter/innen) available at the University of Potsdam starting from October 1, 2011. [PDF]
May 25 I will start as Professor of Empirical Economics at the University of Potsdam as of October 1, 2011. [more...]
Mar 16 New Policy Paper: Selbständige sind anders: Persönlichkeit beeinflusst unternehmerisches Handeln [with F. Fossen and A. Kritikos]. [more...]
Mar 15 New Discussion Paper: Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed [with F. Fossen and A. Kritikos]. [more...]
Mar 03 New Accepted Paper: The Cost Impact of Spam Filters - Measuring the Effect of Information System Technologies in Organizations, forthcoming in: Information Systems Research [with M. Clement, D. Papies, S. Scheel-Kopeinig]. [more...]
Feb 28 Published: Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity, Journal of Public Economics, 95(3-4), 311-331 [with S. Kuenn]. [more...]
Feb 23 New Accepted Papers: IZA Discussion Papers 5165, 5400, 5485 will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Manpower. [more...1][...2][...3]
Feb 14 New Discussion Paper: The Threat Effect of Participation in Active Labor Market Programs on Job Search Behavior of Migrants in Germany [with A. Bergemann, G. Van den Berg, K.F. Zimmermann]. [more...]
Jan 25 New Accepted Paper: Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity: Do these Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?, forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Psychology [with F. Fossen, A.S. Kritikos]. [more...]
2010
Dec 30 New Discussion Paper: The IZA Evaluation Dataset: Towards Evidence-based Labour Policy-Making [with A. Falk, L. Kaiser, H. Schneider, A. Uhlendorff, G. Van den Berg, and K.F. Zimmermann]. [more...]
Dec 20 New Accepted Paper: Determinanten des Suchverhaltens von Arbeitslosen - Ausgewählte Erkenntnisse basierend auf dem IZA Evaluationsdatensatz, forthcoming in: Journal for Labour Market Research / Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung [with A. Uhlendorff]. [more...]
Dec 13 New Discussion Paper: Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity: Do these Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics? [with F. Fossen, A.S. Kritikos]. [more...]
Nov 05 New Accepted Paper: Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity, forthcoming in: Journal of Public Economics [with S. Kuenn]. [more...]
Nov 02 New Research Project: Evaluating Business Coaching for Start-Ups, Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour, KfW, Germany.
Sep 03 New Discussion Paper: Social Networks, Job Search Methods and Reservation Wages: Evidence from Germany [with R. Schmidl, A. Uhlendorff]. [more...]
Sep 02 Published: The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 76, 45-63. [more...]
Jul 20Published: Evaluating the German 'Mini-Job' Reform Using a Natural Experiment, Applied Economics, 42(19), 2475–2489. [more...]
Jun 25 Published: Start-Ups by the Unemployed: Characteristics, Survival and Direct Employment Effects, Small Business Economics, 35(1), 71-92. [more...]
Jun 07 New Accepted Paper: The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival, forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. [more...]
May 05 New Policy Paper: Gründungen aus Arbeitslosigkeit: Nur selten aus der Not geboren und daher oft erfolgreich [with A. Kritikos]. [more...]
Mar 01 New Discussion Paper: Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity [with S. Kuenn]. [more...]
Jan 09 New Discussion Paper: Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies [with D. Cobb-Clark, A. Uhlendorff]. [more...]
Jan 07Published: Die Nachhaltigkeit von geförderten Existenzgründungen aus Arbeitslosigkeit: Eine Bilanz nach fünf Jahren, Journal for Labour Market Research / Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung, 42(4), 269-291. [more...]
2009
Dec 30 New Discussion Paper: "I Want to, But I also Need to": Start-Ups Resulting from Opportunity and Necessity [with A. Kritikos]. [more...]
Dec 28 New Discussion Paper: Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach [with K. Tatsiramos, A. Uhlendorff]. [more...]
Dec 22New Working Paper: Income Support Systems, Labor Market Policies and Labor Supply: The German Experience, IFAU Working Paper No. 2009/26. [more...]
Dec 21New Research Project: Evaluating the New Start-Up Subsidy for Unemployed, Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany.
Dec 02Published: Start-Up Subsidies in East Germany: Finally, a Policy that Works?, International Journal of Manpower, 30(7), 625-647. [more...]
Oct 30Call for Papers: 9th IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Meeting of Labor Economists, Submission Deadline: January 18, 2010. [more...]
Oct 29New Accepted Paper: Die Nachhaltigkeit von geförderten Existenzgründungen aus Arbeitslosigkeit: Eine Bilanz nach fünf Jahren, forthcoming in: Journal for Labour Market Research / Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung. [more...]
Aug 18Published: The Impact of Income Taxation on the Ratio between Reservation and Market Wages and the Incentives for Labour Supply, Applied Economics Letters, 16(9), 877-883. [more...]
May 18Published: The Effect of Active Labor Market Programs on Not-Yet Treated Unemployed Individuals, Journal of the European Economic Association (P&P), 7(2-3), 606-616. [more...]
May 04Published: Die reformierte Gründungsförderung für Arbeitslose - Chancen und Risiken, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 10(2), 189-213. [more...]
Apr 06 New Accepted Paper: Start-Ups by the Unemployed: Characteristics, Survival and Direct Employment Effects, forthcoming in: Small Business Economics. [more...]
Mar 02 New Policy Paper: Ich-AG und Überbrückungsgeld - Erfolgsgeschichte mit zu frühem Ende, IAB Kurzbericht No. 3/2009. [more...]
Feb 24 New Accepted Paper: Start-Up Subsidies in East Germany: Finally, a Policy that Works?, forthcoming in: International Journal of Manpower. [more...]
Feb 04IZA Top 10 Download: The paper "Die Nachhaltigkeit von geförderten Existenzgründungen aus Arbeitslosigkeit: Eine Bilanz nach fünf Jahren" has been in the IZA Top 10 Downloads for Dec 08 and Jan 09. [more...]
Jan 12 Published: Risk Attitudes of Nascent Entrepreneurs - New Evidence from an Experimentally-Validated Survey, Small Business Economics [with F.Fossen, A.S.Kritikos]. [more...]
Jan 02 New Accepted Paper: Die reformierte Gründungsförderung für Arbeitslose - Chancen und Risiken, forthcoming in: Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik [with A.S.Kritikos]. [more...]
2008
Dec 19 New Discussion Paper: Self-Employment Dynamics, State Dependence and Cross-Mobility Patters [with A. Uhlendorff]. [more...]
Dec 19Call for Papers: 5th IZA Conference on Labor Market Policy Evaluation (joint with Georgetown University), Submission Deadline: April 15, 2009 [more...]
Dec 8 New Discussion Paper: Die Nachhaltigkeit von geförderten Existenzgründungen aus Arbeitslosigkeit: Eine Bilanz nach fünf Jahren [with S. Künn, and F. Wießner]. [more...]
Nov 11 New Accepted Paper: The Effect of Active Labor Market Programs on Not-Yet Treated Unemployed Individuals, forthcoming in: Journal of the European Economic Association [with G. van den Berg, A. Bergemann]. [more...]
Oct 14 New Discussion Paper: The Cost Impact of Spam Filters - Measuring the Effect of Information System Technologies in Organizations [with M. Clement, D. Papies, and S. Scheel-Kopeinig]. [more...]
Sep 26Program online: 2nd Joint IZA/IFAU Conference on Labor Market Policy Evaluation, Bonn, October 10-11, 2008 [more...]
Sep 11Call for Papers: 8th IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Meeting of Labor Economists, Submission Deadline: January 16, 2009 [more...]
Aug 01 IZA Top 10 Download: The paper "The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival" has been in the IZA Top 10 Downloads for June and July. [more...]
Jul 15New Accepted Paper: 'Making Work Pay' in a Rationed Labour Market, forthcoming in: Journal of Population Economics [with O. Bargain, P. Haan, and K. Orsini]. [more...]
Jun 24 New Research Grant: Job Search Behavior of the Unemployed [joint with A. Uhlendorff],
German Research Foundation (DFG), Bonn
Jun 03 New Discussion Paper: The Impact of Risk Attitudes on Entrepreneurial Survival [with F. Fossen, and A. Kritikos]. [more...]
May 15 Reminder - Call for papers: 2nd Joint IZA/IFAU Conference on Labor Market Policy Evaluation, Deadline: 15 June, 2008 [more...]
May 05 Published: Turning Unemployment Into Self-Employment: Effectiveness of Two Start-Up Programmes, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 70(3), 347-373 [with H. Baumgartner]. [more...]
Apr 16 Published: Is Entrepreneurial Success Predictable? An Ex-Ante Analysis of the Character-Based Approach, Kyklos, 61(2), 189-214 [with A. Kritikos]. [more...]