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 …

basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period 1996-2002. The estimation method accounts for cohort fixed effects and …

,100 start-ups founded by unemployed persons in Germany. Individuals were subsidized under two different schemes, and we are able …

wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried …-employment sector that offers better opportunities and monetary success. Self-employed women in Germany fare well and most importantly …

business careers, and by investigating differences between native women (both from West and East Germany) and migrants using a …

and native men in Germany and to understand their underlying drive into self-employment. Employing data from the German … Socioeconomic Panel 2000 release we find that self-employment is not significantly affected by exposure to Germany or by human … self-employed than native Germans. The earnings of self-employed men increase with exposure to Germany, hours worked and …