find that spinoffs are less likely to exit than other startups. We show that in West and East Germany and in all sectors …Using a 50 percent sample of all establishments in the German private sector, we report that spinoffs are larger and … initially employ more skilled and more experienced workers than other startups. Controlling for these and other differences, we …

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

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. …

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 …