and native men in Germany and to understand their underlying drive into self-employment. Employing data from the German … Socioeconomic Panel 2000 release we find that self-employment is not significantly affected by exposure to Germany or by human … self-employed than native Germans. The earnings of self-employed men increase with exposure to Germany, hours worked and …

in Germany. To explain the gender gap, a structural microeconometric model of the transition rates is estimated, which … rate, but only a small part of their lower entry rate. -- Entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; risk aversion ; gender …

this “return-to-entrepreneur-ship puzzle” could be that entrepreneurship entails substantial non-monetary bene-fits, such … results imply that working conditions differences do not contribute to resolve the return-to-entrepreneurship puzzle. Rather …