This paper investigates the geography and the effect of people in creative occupation in Germany. The population share …

We investigate regional differences of the effect of new business formation on employment growth in West Germany. We …

We assess the efficiency of regional innovation systems (RIS) in Germany by means of a knowledge production function …

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 …

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