In jüngerer Zeit scheint politisches und dabei insbesondere sozialpolitisches Handeln zunehmend von Alternativlosigkeit geprägt. Öffentliche Diskurse transportieren zunehmend vermeintliche, ökonomisch oder gelegentlich auch juristisch begründete Notwendigkeiten und diskutieren immer...

Throughout the long postwar period, crisis was a conjectural phenomenon and the exception in a normalcy of growth and social progress. Many key concepts of the social sciences - indeed, our understanding of democracy, embedded markets, enlightened electorates, benevolent political elites, and...

Grundsätzlich wird in der Literatur ein Anstieg an selbständig Erwerbstätigen konstatiert.Dabei handelt es sich allerdings um Analysen, die einerseits querschnittsbezogen sind undandererseits wenig ins Detail gehen. Bei einer Analyse ist aber auch die zeitliche Entwicklungzu beachten, da ein...

The paper deals with margins of entrepreneurship where small business owners are almost working ontheir own having no or just a few employees and where one can find also people working with lowreturns and having firms without stability or prosperous dynamics. However, even the area...

Flexible Wissensarbeit in Form hoch qualifizierter selbständiger Beschäftigung stellt in derBundesrepublik einen relativ neuen Erwerbstypus dar, der im Dienstleistungssektor aufExpansionskurs ist. Der Beitrag stellt zentrale Ergebnisse einer empirischen Untersuchungim exemplarischen Feld...

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP), we analyze whethernecessity entrepreneurs differ from opportunity entrepreneurs in terms of self-employmentduration. Using univariate statistics, we find that opportunity entrepreneurs remain in selfemploymentlonger than necessity...

Based on representative data, the German Micro-Census, we provide an overview of thedevelopment of self-employment and entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010,the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic background ofthese individuals, their education,...

Using a large representative German data set and various concepts of self-employment, thispaper tests the “jack-of-all-trades” view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004).Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self-employed individuals performmore tasks and that their...

Drivers of entrepreneurial entry are investigated in this study by examining how entry intosmall-business ownership is shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- andfinancial-capital endowments of potential entrepreneurs entering firms in various industriesare shown to differ...