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 …

context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods …

Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we find that the existence of a works council is …

trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia …

-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different …

Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …