in Germany. To explain the gender gap, a structural microeconometric model of the transition rates is estimated, which …-employment and dependent employment are estimated separately by gender, accounting for non-random selection into the employment … states. The gender differential in the transition rates is decomposed using a novel extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca technique …

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in … background, working time flexibility and career aspirations do not seem to contribute much to the gender earnings gap, suggesting … human capital endowments account for another 13 percent of the gap but segregation does not contribute to the gender …

Women start fewer businesses than men. The start-up rate among women in Germany falls short of males' start-up rate by … one third. We scrutinize this gender gap using individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large …-scale population survey on start-up activity in Germany. As a unique feature, the data combine socio-demographic characteristics …

bezweifeln ist demnach das gängige Klischee, dass das Geschlecht generell eine wichtige Einflussgröße bei Anlageentscheidungen …

business careers, and by investigating differences between native women (both from West and East Germany) and migrants using a …

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

failure to be a reason not to start one's own business is important for the explanation of the gender gap in entrepreneurship. …In western industrialized countries men are on average more than twice as active in entrepreneurship as women. Based on … data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper uses an empirical model for the …

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 …

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2011, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socio … 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 …

financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …