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 …

Germany reveals that start-up activities are positively influenced by unemployment rates and that the cyclical component of …

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

formation: industry, location and change over time. The data is for West Germany and covers the 1983-97 period. Our analysis …