In Deutschland werden vielfach hohe Anforderungen an die berufliche Qualifikation von Existenzgründern gestellt. Im …This study investigates the determinants of self-employment and the effects of continuous vocational training among new … self-employed and job movers. The analysis is based on a cross section of individual data for West Germany in 1991 …

, to the best of our knowledge for the first time for Germany, gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and …

. Wages of migrants to West Germany equal the ones of their West German statistical twins. We conclude that labor markets in … Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with groups of West German statistical twin workers, all taken from the Socio … East and West Germany are still characterized by wage differences but that the degree of inequality in both regions …

, 1994 and 1995. In the German industrial sector, especially in East Germany, employment has declined and the share of highly …The paper analyses the theoretical and empirical relationship between employment, skill structure and innovation in … current stage of transition subsidising labour might be more effective for creating jobs in East Germany than promoting R …

to self-employment was higher for the unemployed than for the employed and decreasing by the time. In West Germany it was …In April 1995, 5.3 million people in Germany were on the lookout for a new job opportunity. 177,000 or nearly 3% of … selfemployment in lieu of wage work are investigated separately for East and West Germany. Using the 70 %-ZEW-sample of the …

This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on …. Rising inequality is not the result of the recent rise in self-employment. In West Germany rising inequality occurred in the …. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in Germany for all workers and for prime age dependent male workers as well …