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 …

In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of …. This paper contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing Lazear's hypothesis using a large recent … economic importance of the jack-of-all-trades theory. …

-of-all-trades" view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self …

Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship … economic importance for entrepreneurship of work experience in a firm that is both young and small. …

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 …

Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might …

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