Even five years after the German reunification, beside the microcensus there is only one databasis in two parts that allows to analyse the structure of all self-employed professionals and their offices and practices in East and West Germany. In a first step, this paper presents a statistic -...

This study examines the income and its distribution of Professions from the results of the microcensus of the year 1991 concerning the western parts and the former eastern communist areas of the unified Germany. It follows the elementary paper about the structure and the quantitative...

This paper deals with the organisation of the interests of the small business sector in the political system of the Federal Republic of Germany. 'Freie Berufe' are regarded as an integral part of this sector. Starting from the hypothesis that these interests are not represented appropriatly in...