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 …

into self-employment and survival of self-employed persons in Germany. The empirical analysis reveals that among the …

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