"Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses," the paper comprises four parts: a … systematic review of the literature on the effect on entrepreneurship and small businesses; a discussion of four literature …

Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our … employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …

pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data …

unemployment. We test the role of skills and training for productive youth entrepreneurship on data from a recent survey of … of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing a gap in the entrepreneurship and development literature with a …

survival rates and little contribution to job creation, economic growth, and innovation. In this paper, we use a rich data set … who started from non-unemployment and did not receive the subsidy. The data allows us to analyze their business …

administrative and survey data and observe participants in two distinct start-up programs in Germany for five years after start-up as …

what extent business cycles or unemployment levels influence entries into entrepreneurship. Our analysis for Germany …

entrepreneurship literature has emphasised the important role of personality traits as predictors for start-up decisions and business … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … administrative-survey data allows us to incorporate usually unobserved personality measures in the evaluation and investigate their …