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In Germany self-employment among foreigners increased significantly in recent years. We study the geographical distribution of ethnic minority self-employment in Germany and find determinants for variations in start-up activities across 440 administrative German regions. We analyze the Statistic...
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-of-all-trades” view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (Am Econ Rev 94(2): 208–211, <CitationRef CitationID="CR27">2004</CitationRef …
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Background: We investigate the relationship between the rate at which new firms are established and regional characteristics and whether this relationship is constant over space or not. The characteristics reflect (i) agglomerations that in turn are related to increasing returns to production...
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Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification. Applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we find that the main factors driving these changes in the overall level of self-employment are demographic...
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Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, more than a quarter of the difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to...
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This paper addresses a central issue to migration the role of immigrants in entrepreneurial activity. In particular, the paper focuses on the determinants of the decision to become an entrepreneur for Turks living in Germany. The paper provides some important benchmarks, including the...
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-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self …
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entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2011, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socio …
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entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic …
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