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 …

, following labor market matching models. Setting out an endogenous growth model with entrepreneurship we derive a … Entrepreneurship Beveridge Curve, through which we illustrate that entrepreneurial start-ups are the outcome of the efficiency with … which entrepreneurial abilities are matched with business opportunities. The Entrepreneurship Beveridge Curve is a …

Earlier studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrants call attention to the fact that also the … register data on individuals for the year of 2007 for the entire Swedish population we have in this study a unique opportunity …-employment ; integration ; entrepreneurship ; multilevel logistic regression …

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

predictions using rich household and individual level micro-data for Germany. We find that women decrease their hours of work in …

uses eight waves of the European Community Household Panel covering the period 1994-2001. The panel data nature of this …

Empirical studies show low pecuniary returns of switching from wage employment to entrepreneurship. We reconsider the … transfers is used as an exclusion restriction to identify causal effects. The model is estimated on data covering the whole … indicate that the average returns to entrepreneurship are significantly negative for individuals entering entrepreneurship …

propositions. The results survive various robustness checks on specifications and assumptions. -- entrepreneurship ; self …

Based on representative data, the German Micro-Census, we provide an overview of the development of self-employment and … entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … starting a business. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; start-ups ; Germany …