@techreport{Fritsch2012starts,
abstract = {Based on representative data, the German Micro-Census, we provide an overview of the development of self-employment and entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2011, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socio-economic background of these individuals, their education, previous employment status, and their income level. We observe a unique increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population (almost 20 percent of them being re-starters), a decision that pays for the majority of individuals in terms of income. Contrary to other countries, in Germany there is a positive relationship between educational levels and the probability of starting a business.},
address = {Jena},
author = {Michael Fritsch and Alexander Kritikos and Alina Rusakova},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {L26; D22; 330; entrepreneurship; self-employment; start-ups; Germany; Selbstst\"{a}ndige; Unternehmer; Unternehmensgr\"{u}ndung; Bildungsniveau; Sch\"{a}tzung; Deutschland},
language = {eng},
number = {2012,001},
publisher = {Univ. [u.a.]},
title = {Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany},
type = {Jena economic research papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/56862},
year = {2012}
}
