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| Title: | | Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany  |
| Authors: | | Fritsch, Michael Kritikos, Alexander Rusakova, Alina |
| Issue Date: | | 2012 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Jena economic research papers 2012,001 |
| 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. |
| Subjects: | | entrepreneurship self-employment start-ups Germany |
| JEL: | | L26 D22 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des DIW Jena Economic Research Papers, MPI für Ökonomik
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