houses in Germany that emerged during a time when the decision for an opera house was mainly determined by the ruler …

positive or negative. On the basis of data at the district level in Germany the conclusions of a previous study about the … einer früheren, für die Niederlande durchgeführten Studie auch auf Deutschland zutreffen. Wie in den Niederlanden erweist … sich auch in Deutschland die medium-tech Industrie als wesentliche Triebkraft der regionalen Wissensbasis während die …

In order to reduce unemployment, it is often recommended that industry-level wage bargaining in Germany should be …

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining …

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 …