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

Das heutige System der sozialen Mindestsicherung verhindert in Deutschland die Ausbildung eines Niedriglohnsektors …

The so-called Hartz reform has introduced fundamental changes for publicly sponsored training in Germany. This concerns …

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 …

social insurance reform in Germany suggest that previous calibration-based results accurately indicate the direction of …

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