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 …

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. …

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

Deutschland ist in den Bemühungen, die hohe Arbeitslosigkeit deutlich zu verringern, in den letzten Jahren nicht sehr … Arbeitsmärkten der alten und der neuen Bundesländer. Gezeigt wird, daß in Frankreich, ähnlich wie in Deutschland, vornehmlich eher …. Schließlich werden neue Konzepte für die Tarifpolitik in Deutschland vorgestellt und auf ihre Brauchbarkeit hin überprüft …