An outstanding microdatabase for the analysis of income and its distribution is the Income and Consumption Survey (EVS). However, high income above the 35.000 DM household net income per month frontier are not available. In this study we analyse for the first time, which distributional...

Information domain time use: This is the topic of this expert opinion for the commisssion to improve the informational infrastructure between sciences and statistics, which is supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Following a given structure the content encompasses:...

This study is originated from our conference ‚Liberal Professions in changing markets’ on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of our Research Institute on Professions (FFB) of the University of Lüneburg. One of the important and central markets is the labour market. The changing labour...

As simple as it is, results describing the world are heavily dependent on the quality of the underlying data. One of the very crucial variables in microanalytical analyses of well-being and human resources is income. The more, when the situation of the self-employed is regarded. This paper focus...

Earlier this year the results of the study ”old-age security in Germany 1996 (AVID 96)“ have been published. This study describes the future age-income-situation of the currently employed population. An essential element is the estimation of future individual working-biographies. This...

In our study: “How to become an entrepreneur, how to become a professional?” we would like to present, after a brief empirical presentation of the development of the entrepreneurs and professions in Germany, a manual on how to reach entrepreneurial or professional self-employment. We would...

Labour market dynamics according the individual working hour tension (preferred working hours minus actual working hours) of active people with focus on the self-employed, as professions and entrepreneurs, and employees are investigated in our study. The individual longitudinal analysis based on...

Within the actual economic and social policy discussion an increasing tax and duties burden is the subject. Before new tax laws and impact analyses of tax changes can be considered, an analysis of the actual tax burden of different societal groups is necessary. In addition, a problemoriented...

Professions and public bounded professions act in an economic and social political range with its poles characterized by the state and the free market. This study considers privitatization and deregulation for the professions and public bounded professions under economic aspects. After...