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 …

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

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 …

Women start fewer businesses than men. The start-up rate among women in Germany falls short of males' start-up rate by …-scale population survey on start-up activity in Germany. As a unique feature, the data combine socio-demographic characteristics …, entrepreneurship-related attitudes, and general personality traits of both business starters and non-starters. Estimating binary choice …

Selbstständigkeitsneigung von Frauen verharrt nicht nur in Deutschland seit langem auf einem deutlich niedrigeren Niveau als die der Männer …-representation of women in entrepreneurship. The propensity of women to become self-employed has long remained at a significantly lower … level than that of men, and not only in Germany. Nevertheless, there are also clear differences within Germany, which are …

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 …

-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self …