can be mainly expected from research that investigates the family backgrounds, education, and employment careers of …

from a socialist planned system to a market economy in East Germany. Relatively high start-up rates are found in regions … period. This also holds for high-tech manufacturing start-ups. Based on our conclusion that policy should account for these …

) measures in Germany. A particular focus is on programs devoted to foster entrepreneurship which can make important …

-2014. We find a pronounced positive relationship between high levels of historical self-employment in science-based industries … technical university founded before the year 1900 is positively related to the level of innovative start-ups more than a century …

start-up behaviour. We combine historical self-employment data (entrepreneurial tradition) with a psychological measure for …

We describe and analyze the long-term development of self-employment in German regions between 1895 and 2019. Based on … rankings ("league tables") for the two years we identify those regions where the relative level of self-employment … significantly increased ('leapfroggers'), and those where the level of self-employment as compared to other regions deteriorated …

entrepreneurs as compared to paid employees and particularly retirees in Germany. The analysis identifies income and health status …

entrepreneurship. Our empirical analysis is based on a survey of researchers at the Max Planck Society in Germany. We find that mobile …