This paper analyzes the role of different types of institutions, such as entrepreneurship-facilitating entry conditions … countries measured by data from EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). We find that institutions never …

insurance system on the entry rate into entrepreneurship. In Germany, the public health insurance system is mandatory for most … representative household panel data for Germany, which include personal health information, and we account for non-random sample ….e. about a third of the average annual entry rate. The results show that the phenomenon of entrepreneurship lock, which an …

entry strongly applies to unincorporated entrepreneurship, but only weakly to incorporated entrepreneurship. This highlights … the association of unincorporated and incorporated entrepreneurship with necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship …

Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our … employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …

operational definition of opportunity versus necessity entrepreneurship using readily available nationally representative data. We …A common finding in the entrepreneurship literature is that business creation increases in recessions. This counter …-cyclical pattern is examined by separating business creation into two components: "opportunity" and "necessity" entrepreneurship …