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

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

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

Germany reveals that start-up activities are positively influenced by unemployment rates and that the cyclical component of …

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 …

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 …