literature by empirically testing the hypothesis that young and small firms are hothouses for nascent entrepreneurs. The …

information on nascent entrepreneurs at the regional level, and the lack of it for Germany, let us start the research project …Nascent entrepreneurs are people who are (alone or with others) actively engaged in creating a new venture and who … development of nations and regions, and that nascent entrepreneurs are by definition important for the foundation of new firms …

that emerged from a number of studies for Germany and other countries: Entry rates differ between regions, and the …

Based on data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper documents that the … entrepreneurs become infant entrepreneurs, and that observed individual characteristics – with the important exception of former …

Although comprehensive data from official statistics on new firm formation and entrepreneurs starting a new business … are lacking in Germany, we know from empirical studies that entry rates differ between regions, and that the propensity to …

necessity and nascent opportunity entrepreneurs are different with respect to some of the characteristics and attitudes … data, however, we have no information about the performance of entrepreneurs from both groups in the longer run. …

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 … educational attainments of potential entrepreneurs do thus not suffice to increase the number of female business starters. …

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 … personal contacts with a young entrepreneur and the regional share of nascent entrepreneurs. …

entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship …