certain changes in the economic environment are important in explaining this development but cannot solely account for it …. Barriers to entrepreneurship, to setting up new firms and to innovations which are prevalent on goods and capital markets also …

policies of the employment agencies. …

start-up activity and larger shares of unemployed among the starters in a region) has a positive effect on the individual … propensity to step into self-employment. All these impacts are not only statistically significant, but economically important …