entrepreneurship. The literature argues that the guaranteed availability of health insurance introduced by the Affordable Care Act (ACA …) of 2010 could reduce this barrier to entrepreneurship and thereby increase entrepreneurial activity. In this paper, we …

entrepreneurship. -- personal bankruptcy law ; insolvency ; entrepreneurship ; fresh start …, lenders may charge higher interest rates or ration credit supply, which can hamper entrepreneurship. Both aspects of a more … tests the hypotheses derived by exploiting the introduction of a "fresh start" policy in Germany in 1999 as a natural …

We exploit Germany's reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at … university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West …

We extend Lazear's theory of skills variety and entrepreneurship in three directions. First, we provide a theoretical … generalists and specialists to possess skill variety. Third, we test our model empirically using data from Germany and the …, but also commercial value. Our findings support the notion that entrepreneurship can be learned. …

also reinforce the prior evidence on the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship. …

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 … employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …