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

Germany, while at the same time charting the determinants of their presence. Furthermore, we identify newly established works …

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 …

collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is …

The effect of collective bargaining on innovation has long been in dispute. At the level of theory, the hold-up problem … representative data for Germany - for many observers the exemplar of a cooperative industrial relations regime - to investigate the …

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

Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification … employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger … increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany. …

This study provides updated evidence on the union contract differential in Germany using establishment-wide wage data …