Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather …

This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from …

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 …

This study gives a comparative overview of labor market dynamics and institutional arrangements in Germany and Brazil …

The share of non-standard jobs in total employment has increased in Germany over recent decades. Research tends to … development in Germany is a large occupational heterogeneity, which is true for both current working conditions and trajectories … analyses the role of different types of non-standard employment across occupations in Germany, explaining variation between …

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