Holtz-Eakin, Douglas; Rosen, Harvey - In: Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy 4 (2005) 1, pp. 1029-1029
In this paper we analyze microdata to explore differences in the rates at which American and German workers leave their salaried jobs to become self-employed. We document that the rate of self-employment is lower in Germany than in the United States, and the rate of transition from wage-earning...