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Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our …
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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. …
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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 …
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Using micro-level panel data of about 35,000 firms from the German Cost Structure Census, we analyze the differences of technical efficiency across industries. Technical efficiency is estimated by firms? fixed effects. One striking result is that the distribution of technical efficiency across...
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The determinants of migrants' remittances are the subject of this study based on German SOEP data (2001-2006). In contrast to previous studies we analyze the motives for remittances not only for foreigners but also for the broader group of individuals with a personal migration background. Major...
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This paper investigates the factors that explain the level and dynamics of manufacturing firm productive efficiency. In our empirical analysis, we use a unique sample of about 39,000 firms in 256 industries from the German Cost Structure Census over the years 1992-2005. We estimate the...
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2007, about 7.3 million foreigners were living in Germany. While the total number of foreigners has decreased over the last … decade, female migration to Germany has increased. Today, women constitute 48.6% of migratory flows to Germany, although the …-specific determinants of remittances from Germany. Here we attempt to fill this gap, focusing on gender roles and network effects. We …
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study attempts to fill this gap. Managers in private companies in Germany are a highly selective group of women and men, who …
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all, but women must still choose between career and family in Germany. We argue that interventions need to address how the …
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supervisory boards of Germany's largest private sector companies has created a 'male monoculture' there. In the literature …
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