Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship … economic importance for entrepreneurship of work experience in a firm that is both young and small. …

are lacking in Germany, we know from empirical studies that entry rates differ between regions, and that the propensity to …

Women start fewer businesses than men. The start-up rate among women in Germany falls short of males' start-up rate by …-scale population survey on start-up activity in Germany. As a unique feature, the data combine socio-demographic characteristics …, entrepreneurship-related attitudes, and general personality traits of both business starters and non-starters. Estimating binary choice …

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 …

Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might …

Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM) Germany in 2000. As part of this project, we performed a representative survey of the … information on nascent entrepreneurs at the regional level, and the lack of it for Germany, let us start the research project … adult population in 10 German regions, plus a survey and interviews with local experts in the field of entrepreneurship in …

This paper contributes to empirical research in entrepreneurship by focusing on the link between two stylized facts … that emerged from a number of studies for Germany and other countries: Entry rates differ between regions, and the … Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM). We use a version of the probit model that takes care of the regional stratification of the data, and …

Based on data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper documents that the … patterns of variables influencing nascent and infant entrepreneurship are quite similar and broadly in line with our … theoretical priors – both types of entrepreneurship are fostered by the width of experience and a role model in the family, and …