We explore the role of different types of self-employment for a persistence of the regional level of entrepreneurship … regarded a rather weak form of entrepreneurship. …

claim that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question … group’? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals’ utility levels …

is an important element of life satisfaction. Fixed-effects regressions using German Socio-Economic Panel data (1984 …

Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our … employee, while the median solo entrepreneur earns less. However, solo entrepreneurship pays for those with a university …

Emerging literature shows that spatial differences in entrepreneurship tend to persist over longer periods of time. A … regional culture and a supporting environment in favor of entrepreneurship that particularly involves social capital. This … chapter summarizes the available empirical evidence on the regional persistence of entrepreneurship and elaborates in detail …

We use the historical self-employment rate as an indicator of a regional culture of entrepreneurship and link this … measure to economic growth in recent periods. The results indicate that German regions with a high level of entrepreneurship … a regional culture of entrepreneurship is an important resource for regional growth. …

Persistence of entrepreneurship over longer periods of time could indicate a culture of entrepreneurship among the … World War II, the relationship between historical and current levels of entrepreneurship is not significant. Persistence of … entrepreneurship is related to the historical success of regions, which we capture by the pre-war level of and self-employment in …

from own-account workers within the group of self-employed using data from the ECHP for 14 European countries. Our findings …

estimate a bivariate random effects probit on a self-employmentsample drawn from register data. We find that those who are …