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 …

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in …

Why do some people become entrepreneurs (and others don't)? Why are firms so heterogeneous, and many firms so small? To … education is U-shaped, that many entrepreneurs start a firm out of necessity, that most firms are small, remain so, yet persist … where agents are heterogeneous in their ability as workers, and starting entrepreneurs face uncertainty about their project …

determine the length of time that it takes aspiring entrepreneurs to switch into self-employment. The existence of switching … for aspiring entrepreneurs. …

the importance of skills for the entrepreneurs who employ those workers, and in particular on their evolution over time …, heterogeneous firm model à la Lucas (1978): technological change does not benefit all potential entrepreneurs equally, and there is …. Because wages rise for all workers, low-productivity entrepreneurs will then at some point exit and become workers. As a …

migrated, return migrants are significantly more likely not to participate in the labour market or to be entrepreneurs. However … stronger. As for non-migrants, the migration experience would have increased their probability to be entrepreneurs showing the …

entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second … observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to human capital than employees. We present an intuitive model showing that … for higher returns to human capital for entrepreneurs. …