are lacking in Germany, we know from empirical studies that entry rates differ between regions, and that the propensity to …

successful than single entrepreneurs? These questions are analysed using data on academic spinoffs in Germany. Firm success is …

Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might …

In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of …. This paper contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing Lazear's hypothesis using a large recent …

Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship … economic importance for entrepreneurship of work experience in a firm that is both young and small. …

should have a higher probability of being self-employed than others. The empirical results for Germany support this jack …

Since the beginning of the transformation of East Germany from a socialist planned economy to a market economy, there …, and political problems of East Germany, thereby narrowing the gap between East and West Germany. This paper uses panel … West Germany observed during the first years after reunification has not been maintained. In short, some East German …