This study investigates firm survival and employment growth of start-ups by unemployed people in East and West Germany … 1995 and could be observed at least one year after their foundation in 4 regions of East and 11 regions of West Germany. In …

In April 1995, 5.3 million people in Germany were on the lookout for a new job opportunity. 177,000 or nearly 3% of … selfemployment in lieu of wage work are investigated separately for East and West Germany. Using the 70 %-ZEW-sample of the … factors like age, sex and education, on the status in the labour market. In 1991 in East Germany the probability of aspiring …

self-employed and job movers. The analysis is based on a cross section of individual data for West Germany in 1991 …