advantage in the most complex tasks relative to capital, and because the wages of the least skilled workers are sufficiently low … relative to their productivity and the effective cost of capital in low-complexity tasks. Minimum wages and other sources of … higher wages at the bottom make interior automation less likely. Starting with interior automation, a reduction in the cost …

This study investigates the determinants of self-employment and the effects of continuous vocational training among new … self-employed and job movers. The analysis is based on a cross section of individual data for West Germany in 1991 … important after entering self-employment. …

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a changing environment for transnational migrant start-ups. These changes have posed … migrant start-ups' embeddedness in translocal entrepreneurial ecosystems by analysing data from 14 semi-structured interviews … with start-ups from Berlin's knowledgeintensive business services sector. We argue that the success of transnational …

characteristics help and hinder start-ups to seek start-up subsidies remains unclear. We study whether and how founder personality, as …. Drawing on a large multi-sector sample of German start-ups, we find strong evidence for a positive role of founder …

break. Using the correction, the paper confirms that the rise in wage inequality among full-time workers in West Germany …

qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur zur Erklärung der Beschäftigungsstruktur Stellung. Basierend auf einer Einteilung in drei …-Kostenfunktion und Anteilsgleichungen ökonometrisch geschätzt, um den Einfluss der Lohnstruktur auf die Beschäftigungsstruktur zu …

technology adopters relative to non-adopters. Depending on the type of technology, we find evidence for improved employment …