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. …

using the so-called Type A behavior traits (Aggression, Leadership, Responsibility, and Eagerness-Energy), measured in … 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 …

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

should have a higher probability of being self-employed than others. The empirical results for Germany support this jack …

household income. Based on individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large-scale survey on entrepreneurship in … Germany, our regression results show that entrepreneurs in creative industries tend to be younger and better educated than …