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

In Germany, two observations can be tracked over the past 15 to 20 years: First, income inequality has constantly …

In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly …

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 …

on the universe of professional soccer players in Germany over the period 1999-2011. Combining this data with hourly …

investigate the effect of increases in the Value Added Tax on labor supply and the income distribution in Germany, which is …

In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly …

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