If you want something done, do it yourself

The German strategy against unemployment it is so simple, yet effective: do-it-yourself. Over the past 20 years, the number of self-employed workers is, in fact, grew by more than 40%, to reach 4.3 million share in 2011. For the citizens of the federation, therefore, the current severe economic crisis is an opportunity to invest more in themselves. The data made ​​available by the Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung also stress three important developments. The first, in the Lander of the former East Germany has a higher rate of entrepreneurship than the national average. So much so that since 1990 the army of VAT has increased by almost 60%. Also note, that among those who decided to do business as much as 41% are women versus 33% in 1996. Last but not least, the under-25 account for almost 10% of those new business owners.