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Chartbooks | 2025 Self-employed women becoming mother - The consequences for their employment

The birth of a child represents a signicant break in the employment history not only of paid employed women but also of self-employed women.

KMU-Barometer November 2025

KMU-Barometer November 2025

Policy Brief "Entrepreneurship in Focus" | 2025 Local Entrepreneurship Helps Places Bounce Back After Extreme Weather Shocks

The presence of entrepreneurial organizations in an economy is associated with greater regional resilience to external shocks. Why?

External publication | 2025 Silicon Valley entrepreneurship: Reflection on a popular myth

Silicon Valley entrepreneurship is regarded as a model for regionally concentrated and globally successful high-tech entrepreneurship.

Policy Brief "Entrepreneurship in Focus" | 2025 Psychological costs as a key factor in the bureaucratic burden on businesses

Compliance costs measured in terms of time and financial resources significantly underestimate the bureaucratic burden on companies.

External publication | 2025 Interference in children’s affairs An exploratory study about the role of self-employed parents

The literature on entrepreneurship suggests that children of self-employed parents are more likely to become self-employed themselves due to parental role models and socialisation.

Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy Bureaucracy per se fulfills important economic functions: It helps to ensure legal certainty, planning security and equal treatment. However, despite several bureaucracy relief laws,…