influence on risk attitudes and opportunity recognition. We conduct a natural experiment based on Germany’s recent … history and compare individuals born and raised in the former socialist East Germany (GDR) with their West Germany (FRG …) counterparts. Our analysis confirms the expected difference in values between individuals from East and West Germany and also shows …

Welchen Einfluss hat Schulbildung auf die spätere Berufswahl, insbesondere auf die Entscheidung, sich selbstständig zu … Studierende im wiedervereinigten Deutschland, welche in der DDR geboren wurden, signifikant geringere unternehmerische Absichten … verfolgen als ihre Kommilitonen, die in der BRD aufwuchsen. Gleichzeitig haben Studierende aus Ostdeutschland, welche ihre …

contacts. These results remain robust after applying matching techniques and concentrating on young entrepreneurs. …

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

and native men in Germany and to understand their underlying drive into self-employment. Employing data from the German … Socioeconomic Panel 2000 release we find that self-employment is not significantly affected by exposure to Germany or by human … self-employed than native Germans. The earnings of self-employed men increase with exposure to Germany, hours worked and …

question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of …. In comparison to West Germans, they are also less inclined to see others as fair or helpful. Implied trajectories can be …

With the tax reform 2000 Germany has seen the implementation of the most ambitious tax reduction programme in its post … and redistributional impacts on the self employed (professions (free lancers) and entrepreneurs) and employees besides … Unternehmer) und anderen sozioökonomischen Gruppen (z.B. unterschieden nach Geschlecht, Familientypus etc.) untersucht. Zusätzlich …

there is a divide between East and West Germany, but also that neighbours may not be a relevant comparison group in …' income divide the German nation. We find that the neighbourhood income effect for West Germany is negative (which is in line … social interactions between neighbours take place. In contrast, the coefficients on neighbourhood income in East Germany are …