development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …

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

manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …

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 …

Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are less likely to move or migrate than employees. Using longitudinal data from … in employment status we found little evidence that the self-employed in Germany and the UK are more rooted in place than …

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