In the 1990s overtime incidence in Great Britain and West Germany is quite similar, while the average amount of hours … of overtime for full-time male workers with overtime in Great Britain is roughly twice those in Germany for all years. We … time. In Germany, we observe a remarkable decrease in the share of workers who work paid overtime and a significant …

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2011, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socio … 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 …

We analyze the sources of the rise in the levels of self-employment in Germany since reunification by applying the non …-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique. This analysis is performed separately for East and West Germany in order to account …

investigates and analyzes the pandemic's effect on new business formation, as well as business exits and insolvencies, in Germany …

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. …

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

formation: industry, location and change over time. The data is for West Germany and covers the 1983-97 period. Our analysis …

social resources on the individual length of unemployment in Germany are analysed with data from the German Socio … to new additional findings. In West-Germany mobile persons and actors with internal control find a job more easily while … in East-Germany social capital has a positive influence on the probability of reemployment. …