vary in their pattern of new firm location. In East Germany, only 5 percent of the industries reveal start-up localization … patterns beyond what natural advantages would suggest compared to 40 percent in West Germany. -- Entrepreneurship ; location …

This paper investigates the effect of related and unrelated variety on regional growth in West Germany. In particular …

-human-capital employees. To overcome endogeneity, we draw on a quasi-natural experiment in German history and exploit the exogenous spatial …

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 …