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 …

are lacking in Germany, we know from empirical studies that entry rates differ between regions, and that the propensity to …

that emerged from a number of studies for Germany and other countries: Entry rates differ between regions, and the …

information on nascent entrepreneurs at the regional level, and the lack of it for Germany, let us start the research project … Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM) Germany in 2000. As part of this project, we performed a representative survey of the …

entrepreneurs as compared to paid employees and particularly retirees in Germany. The analysis identifies income and health status …