Start-up Success of Freelancers: New Microeconometric Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Joachim Merz and Peter Paic (paic@uni-lueneburg.de)
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Peter Paic: Leuphana University Lüneburg

No 2036, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: If certain start-up characteristics will indicate a business success, knowing such characteristics could generate more successful start-ups and more efficient start-up counseling. Our study will contribute to this by quantifying individual success determinants of freelance start-ups. The data base for the microeconometric analyses of the survival of the first three years is a revised German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for 1992 until 2002, which allows to incorporate institutional, personal and family/household socio-economic variables. We describe and discuss the datawork to achieve compatible information over time within a revised GSOEP and present microeconometric rare events logit, logit and probit results.

Keywords: German Socio-Economic Panel; self-employed; liberal professions; freelancers; start-up success; rare events logit; logit; probit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 J21 J23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2006-03
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