“Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses,” the paper comprises four parts: a … systematic review of the literature on the effect on entrepreneurship and small businesses; a discussion of four literature …

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 …

insurance system on the entry rate into entrepreneurship. In Germany, the public health insurance system is mandatory for most … based on representative household panel data for Germany, which include personal health information, and we account for … points, i.e. about a third of the average annual entry rate. The results show that the phenomenon of entrepreneurship lock …

-time online-survey data with a total of more than 20,000 observations. We employ propensity score matching, making use of a rich …

pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data …

and drastic changes in the politic-economic environment. We thus conclude that regional entrepreneurship cultures do exist … and that they have long-lasting effects. -- Entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; new business formation ; persistence …

Based on representative data, the German Micro-Census, we provide an overview of the development of self-employment and … entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … starting a business. -- Entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; start-ups ; Germany …

; necessity ; entrepreneurship …