We examine the impact of local racial demonstrations, such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests, and the subsequent racial justice movement following the death of George Floyd on racial disparities in Paycheck Protection Program loan disbursements to small businesses. Using...

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...

With the tax reform 2000 Germany has seen the implementation of the most ambitious tax reduction programme in its post-war history. In the period from 1998 to 2005, taxpayers will benefit substantially from net tax relief more than DM 100 billions in total. It is expected, that private...

Zielsetzung der Untersuchung ist es, die Charakteristika und Bestimmungsfaktoren für eine Existenzgründung von Freiberuflern und Unternehmern (sonstige Selbständige) in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland anhand des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels (SOEP) für die Jahre 1991 bis 2001 aufzuzeigen. In...

The economic transformations of modern industrial societies have changed the labor markets in terms of industrial relations and occupational structure. The transformation of the traditional welfare state, the deregulation of the labor markets, the technological change and the reorganization of...

Diese Studie untersucht den Einkommensreichtum in den deutschen Bundesländern 2003 mit Fokus auf das Land Niedersachsen. Mit den Mikrodaten der Einkommensteuer-Geschäftsstatistik 2003 werden erstmals Reichtumsquoten und Intensitäten des Reichtums für Selbständige als Freie Berufe und...

Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. But in the U.S. rates of self employment among Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino whites. Using data from the Mexican and U.S. population census, we show that neither industrial composition nor...