formation: industry, location and change over time. The data is for West Germany and covers the 1983-97 period. Our analysis …

Studies for established market economies such as West Germany (Fritsch and Mueller, 2007), and Sweden (Andersson and … we present is regional entrepreneurship in West Germany in the 1984-2005 period, a time that was characterized by … compare regional entrepreneurship in West Germany between the years 1925 and 2005. This period was has been characterized by …

We analyze the sources of the rise in the levels of self-employment in Germany since reunification by applying the non …-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique. This analysis is performed separately for East and West Germany in order to account … particular increase of solo-entrepreneurship. -- entrepreneurship ; Germany , non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique …

Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our …