The Mannheim Enterprise Panel (Mannheimer Unternehmenspanel – MUP) of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW …) is the most comprehensive micro database of companies in Germany outside the official business register (which is not … in Germany. At the end of 2013, the MUP contained information on 7.7 Mio firms, of which about 3.2 Mio were still active …

This study investigates the gender disparity in entrepreneurship in Germany. Using the data from the Socio …-Economic Panel (SOEP), levels of education, Risk tolerance, and parental role model have a positive significant influence on the … self-employment. Also, there is a higher probability of self-employment activity in East Germany than in West Germany. In …

professions and entrepreneurs (other self-employed) in the Federal Republic of Germany based on the socio-economic panel (SOEP …