This article reviews empirical evidence on the early tracking system in Germany and the educational inequalities …

also a driver of behavior and life's outcomes? Rich survey data of recent entrants into unemployment in Germany show that a …

secondary schooling in Germany which are not migrant-specific. …

Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany. …

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …

survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …

Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our …