Das stetig wachsende Durchschnittsalter der Bevölkerung sowie der technische Fortschritt setzen das Gesundheitswesen unter Druck. Um zu gewährleisten, dass jedem Bürger der Anspruch auf die medizinische Grundversorgung auch in Zukunft erhalten bleibt, müssen Kosten reduziert und Fehler im...

In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried businesswomen - and investigate whether ethnicity is important in...

Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or self-employed. We are interested in the dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment are absorbing states. However,...