Arbeitspapier
Why Did Self-Employment Increase so Strongly in Germany?
Germany experienced a unique rise in the level of self-employment in the first two decades following unification. Applying the non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, we find that the main factors driving these changes in the overall level of self-employment are demographic developments, the shift towards service sector employment, and a larger share of population holding a tertiary degree. While these factors explain most of the development in self-employment with employees and the overall level of self-employment in West Germany, their explanatory power is much lower for the stronger increase of solo self-employment and of self-employment in former socialist East Germany.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 8818
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Entrepreneurship
Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
- Thema
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self-employment
non-linear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique
entrepreneurship
Germany
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Fritsch, Michael
Kritikos, Alexander S.
Sorgner, Alina
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2015
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Fritsch, Michael
- Kritikos, Alexander S.
- Sorgner, Alina
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2015
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