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

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 …

security contributions to people with low-earnings jobs) introduced in Germany in April 2003. The analysis is based on a …

marginal employment range between -.4 (number of male workers in west Germany) to -1 (working hours for women). We illustrate …? social security contributions (SSC) on marginal employment in Germany. …

negative cumulative earnings effect for older workers in west Germany. …

an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal … and had no negative employment effects. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing …