Based on the notion that entrepreneurship is a 'local event' , the literature argues that selfemployed workers and entrepreneurs are 'rooted' in place. This paper tests the 'residential rootedness'-hypothesis of self-employment by examining for Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are...

Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place embeddedness of self-employment. It examines...

This paper uses unique German data to examine the effects of the relative standing on the individual propensity to become self-employed in the next two years. The results suggest that the relationship between relative wage positions and propensity to become self-employed is U-shaped. This is...

Innovation gilt als der Schlüssel zu Wirtschaftswachstum und in der modernen Ökonomie nimmt der Entrepreneur dabei die herausragende Rolle ein. Mit der Lissabon-Agenda 2000 wurde für die Europäische Union das Ziel gesetzt, der weltweit wettbewerbsfähigste und dynamischste wissensbasierte...

Die Kurzstudie, die im Auftrag der Handwerkskammer Düsseldorf erstellt worden ist, untersucht die Rolle von Frauen als Inhaberinnen im Handwerk. Zwar hat sich in den letzten Jahren der Frauenanteil im Handwerk etwas erhöht, so dass derzeit etwa jeder vierte Handwerksbetrieb von einer Frau...

In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of the choice between self-employment and paid employment he shows that having a background in a large number of different roles increases the probability of becoming an...

Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing the hypothesis that young and small firms are hothouses for nascent entrepreneurs. The empirical estimation takes the rare events nature of...