Start-up subsidies for the unemployed have long been an important active labor market policy strategy in Germany. The …

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 …

Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our … distribution in their previous salaried job. Surprisingly, the variation in hourly incomes of solo entrepreneurs is higher than … that of entrepreneurs with employees. …

entrepreneurs as compared to paid employees and particularly retirees in Germany. The analysis identifies income and health status … as main factors that shape the relationship between occupational status and life satisfaction. Senior entrepreneurs enjoy … to their self-employed counterparts. Heterogeneity analysis of various types of senior entrepreneurs and senior paid …

We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than … experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and employees. Our experimental results show that entrepreneurs are indeed more … curiosity. Our empirical test results show that (i) entrepreneurs score indeed higher, on average, than managers and employees …