In western industrialized countries men are on average more than twice as active in entrepreneurship as women. Based on data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper uses an empirical model for the decision to become self-employed to test for differences...

Ein vielseitiger und gesunder Mittelstand ist Motor und fester Bestandteil hochentwickelter Volkswirtschaften. Mit dem vorliegenden zweiten Band setzt der Round Table Mittelstand seine Publikationsreihe fort, die sich mit zentralen mittelstandspolitischen Themen auseinandersetzt. Ausgewiesene...

Entrepreneurship has a cyclical component, raising two questions. Is the entrepreneurship cycle related to the business cycle? And is there causality? A twoway relationship between entrepreneurship and the business cycle would be in line with the two faces of entrepreneurs: as agents of change...