information on nascent entrepreneurs at the regional level, and the lack of it for Germany, let us start the research project … Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM) Germany in 2000. As part of this project, we performed a representative survey of the …

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 …

are lacking in Germany, we know from empirical studies that entry rates differ between regions, and that the propensity to … region matters for the decision to start a new business ceteris paribus, i.e. after controlling for sex, age, education etc … the region does not matter. The consequences of these findings for regional policies to encourage new firm entry are …

Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might …, attitude towards risk, and the share of persons in the region who failed in the past, while it is positively related to …

various industries in the life duration of new firms and about the importance of the region of location for the probability of …

start-up activity and larger shares of unemployed among the starters in a region) has a positive effect on the individual …

Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are less likely to move or migrate than employees. Using longitudinal data from … in employment status we found little evidence that the self-employed in Germany and the UK are more rooted in place than …