Unemployment benefit duration and startup success
Camarero Garcia, Sebastian
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Murmann, Martin
URL:
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https://madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/57092
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URN:
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urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-570926
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Document Type:
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Working paper
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Year of publication:
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2020
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The title of a journal, publication series:
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ZEW Discussion Papers
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Volume:
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20-033
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Place of publication:
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Mannheim
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Publication language:
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English
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Institution:
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Außerfakultäre Einrichtungen > Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences - CDSE (Economics) Sonstige Einrichtungen > ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
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MADOC publication series:
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Veröffentlichungen des ZEW (Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung) > ZEW Discussion Papers
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Subject:
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330 Economics
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Classification:
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JEL:
D22 , J21 , J23 , J44 , J62 , J64 , J65 , L11 , L25 , L26 , M13,
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Keywords (English):
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Entrepreneurship , unemployment insurance , fiscal externality
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Abstract:
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Despite the importance of business creation for the economy and a relevant share of new firms being started out of unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on reemployment outcomes that ignore
self-employment. In this paper, we assess how UI benefit duration affects the motivation for creating a startup while unemployed and the subsequent firms’ success. To do so, we create a comprehensive dataset on founders in Germany that links administrative social insurance with survey data. Exploiting reform- and age-based exogenous variations in potential benefit duration (PBD) within the German UI system, we find that longer PBD leads to longer actual unemployment duration for those becoming self-employed. Furthermore, the UI duration elasticity for these individuals is higher than common estimates for those individuals becoming re-employed. With increasing unemployment benefit duration, the founders’ outcomes in terms of self-assessed motivation, sales, and employment growth lessen. This overall causal effect of PBD can be rationalized with a mix of composition and individual-level duration effects. Therefore, our findings suggest that it is important to consider the fiscal externality of UI on startup success when it comes to the (optimal) design of UI systems.
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