This chapter investigates the integration processes of immigrants in Germany by comparing certain immigrant groups to … Germany. …

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 …

miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to be a strong case of internal flexibility. We argue that important … reforms, the nature of the crisis affecting mainly export-oriented companies in Germany, the extension of short-time work, the …

of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite … that Germany would have been better off, had it immediately opened its labor market. Finally, the Great recession allows us …

Germany's recovery from an unemployment disease and its resilience to the Great Recession is remarkable. Its success …

survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …

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