This article tests the theory recently put forward by Edward Lazear that individuals with competence in many skills should have a higher probability of being self-employed than others. The empirical results for Germany support this jack-of-all-trades view.

This paper contributes to empirical research on the role of regional policy for entrepreneurship by focusing on the link between two stylized facts that emerged from a number of studies for Germany and other countries: entry rates differ between regions, and the propensity to become an...

This paper uses a large plant level panel data set from Germany and a matching approach to look for casual effects of starting to export on plant performance. We find positive effects on growth of employment, labor productivity, and wages.

According to the German disability law, or Schwerbehindertengesetz, either six percent of all jobs in an establishment must be occupied by disabled employees or the firm has to pay a penalty of DM 200 per month for every job under consideration. This note reports results from the first...

Dieser Beitrag betrachtet die Entscheidung von Arbeitslosen für oder gegen einen Schritt in die Selbständigkeit. Hierbei richtet er sein Augenmerk auf die Bedeutung individueller Charakteristika einerseits und auf die Rolle des regionalen Gründungsklimas anderseits. Die ökonometrische...

Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany in in part due to a habit that might be termed "stigmatisation of failure": taking a second chance to build one's own firm after failing as a self-employed person is said to be much more difficult here than in...

Dieser Beitrag untersucht mit Daten aus dem Regionalen Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM) - einer repräsentativen Bevölkerungsbefragung in zehn deutschen Raumordnungsregionen - die Frage, ob neben persönlichen Charakteristika und Einstellungen auch Merkmale der Region die individuelle...