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 nonlinear 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 in solo self-employment and in self-employment in former socialist East Germany.
Author details: | Michael Fritsch, Alexander KritikosORCiDGND, Alina Sorgner |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/08985626.2015.1048310 |
ISSN: | 0898-5626 |
ISSN: | 1464-5114 |
Title of parent work (English): | Entrepreneurship and regional development |
Publisher: | Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |
Place of publishing: | Abingdon |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2015 |
Publication year: | 2015 |
Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
Tag: | D22; Germany; L26; entrepreneurship; nonlinear Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique; self-employment |
Volume: | 27 |
Issue: | 5-6 |
Number of pages: | 27 |
First page: | 307 |
Last Page: | 333 |
Funding institution: | Research Data Centre of the Regional Statistical Office of Berlin; Research Data Centre of the Regional Statistical Office of Thuringia in Erfurt |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
Peer review: | Referiert |