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 …

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 …

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining …

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

while their risk of becoming unemployed was lower. In particular in eastern Germany, joining firms that were older than six …

present first empirical evidence on this firm age - wage nexus for Germany. We find that older firms pay on average higher …

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