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 …

Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by … restrictions imposed by the rather centralized system of collective bargaining in Germany, plants which make use of single …

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

This paper looks at the wage effects of perceived and objective insecurity in Germany and the UK using the GSOEP and … insecurity and wages significantly negative level effects are found for Germany with some evidence for those in the UK. There is …

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