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

Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a … care ; labor supply ; discrete choice ; panel study ; Germany …

Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are …, differences in mothers' employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …

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 …

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

The extension of subsidized child care is currently on top of the political agenda in Germany. In this paper the excess …