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. …

Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach. …

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in …

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 …

Using comprehensive data for West Germany, this paper investigates the determinants of establishment exit. We find that …

empirical estimation takes the rare events nature of becoming a nascent entrepreneur and the regional stratification of the …

This paper tests the theory recently put forward by Edward Lazear that individuals with competence in many skills … should have a higher probability of being self-employed than others. The empirical results for Germany support this jack …

are lacking in Germany, we know from empirical studies that entry rates differ between regions, and that the propensity to …

find that spinoffs are less likely to exit than other startups. We show that in West and East Germany and in all sectors …