- A-Z
- Jena Economic Resea...
- Volume 18
- The Entrepreneurial...
- Autor(in)
- Erschienen
- 2. Januar 2024
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2024-001
- Schlagwort(e)
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Entrepreneurship
regional dynamics
self-employment
- Zusammenfsg.
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We describe and analyze the long-term development of self-employment in German regions between 1895 and 2019. Based on rankings ("league tables") for the two years we identify those regions where the relative level of self-employment significantly increased ('leapfroggers'), and those where the level of self-employment as compared to other regions deteriorated ('plungers'). Germany is a particularly interesting case due to the turbulent history of the country over the 20th century that includes two lost World Wars, occupation by foreign armies, forty years of division into a capitalist and a socialist state, as well as reunification and shock transformation of the eastern part to a market economy. While there is some persistence of regional self-employment despite all the disruptive changes, we also find and discuss considerable changes of regional levels of entrepreneurial activity.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- JEL-Classification for JER
- L26 - Entrepreneurship ; R11 - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, and Changes ; O52 - Europe