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

location choice of immigrants and the reflection problem. We exploit a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany to identify …

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 …

regulations associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany in 1956. We estimate conscription to increase the …

what extent business cycles or unemployment levels influence entries into entrepreneurship. Our analysis for Germany …

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. …

We analyze the role of distance from a university in the decision to attend higher education in Germany. Students who …