This paper uses firm level data from the World Bank Enterprise surveys conducted in 2019 and from the COVID-19 follow-up surveys conducted in 2020 in ten European countries to investigate the link between the gender of the firm's owner and firm survival until 2020.The estimated effect of female...

This paper uses firm level data from World Bank Enterprise surveys conducted in 2019, and COVID-19 follow-up surveys conducted in 2020, in ten European countries to investigate the link between the gender of the firm's owner and the firm's survival until 2020. The empirical investigation uses...

This article tests the theory recently put forward by Edward Lazear that individuals with competence in many skills should have a higher probability of being self-employed than others. The empirical results for Germany support this jack-of-all-trades view.

Dieser Beitrag betrachtet die Entscheidung von Arbeitslosen für oder gegen einen Schritt in die Selbständigkeit. Hierbei richtet er sein Augenmerk auf die Bedeutung individueller Charakteristika einerseits und auf die Rolle des regionalen Gründungsklimas anderseits. Die ökonometrische...

Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany in in part due to a habit that might be termed "stigmatisation of failure": taking a second chance to build one's own firm after failing as a self-employed person is said to be much more difficult here than in...