basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period 1996-2002. The estimation method accounts for cohort fixed effects and …

find that spinoffs are less likely to exit than other startups. We show that in West and East Germany and in all sectors …

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

find that spinoffs are less likely to exit than other startups. We show that in West and East Germany and in all sectors …

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 …

while their risk of becoming unemployed was lower. In particular in eastern Germany, joining firms that were older than six …