Mit dieser Studie wird eine Serie von Grundlagenpapieren zur Statistik und den Freien Berufen eröffnet, die mit der amtlichen Statistik beginnend, zentrale Statistiken der Freien Berufe auf der Indiviualbasis thematisiert. Freie Berufe im Mikrozensus I - Struktur und quantitative Bedeutung...

This paper investigates how firms dynamically adjust their use of capital, labor, energy, and materials when there are both smooth and lumpy adjustment possibilities and interrelation among adjustments. The Colombian Annual Census of Manufacturing provides evidence of these kinds of adjustment....

Das Diskussionspapier greift die problematische Datenerfassung der Freien Berufe im Sozioökonomischen Panel (SOEP) auf. Im Mittelpunkt stehen sogenannte „kritische Wechsel“ zwischen freiberuflichen und selbständigen Tätigkeiten innerhalb der Selbständigen-Gruppe des SOEP. Forschungsziel...

In this paper I analyse a labour market where the wage is endogenously determined according to an Efficient Bargaining process between a firm and a labour union whose members are partitioned into two social groups: the old and the young. Furthermore, I exploit the Single-Mindedness theory, which...

Traditional welfare analyses based on money income needs to be broadened by its time dimension. In the course of time the traditional full-time work is diminishing and new labour arrangements are discussed (keyword: flexible labour markets). Our study is contributing to economic well-being by...

The labour market providing individual resources and economic well-being is still a topic in the economic and social policy discussion. In the course of time the traditional full-time work is diminishing, new labour arrangements are discussed (keyword: flexible labour markets). This study will...

The entrance of young people in the labour market at older ages than in the past is correlated to the increased trend in education. Both these changes, the delay in entrances and the increase in the number of years spent at school, are much more marked in the case of women. One additional school...

Ecological innovations have increasingly been seen as a major response to environmental problems. An important question for both economic research and public policy is whether these innovations also increase employment or not (the question of a double dividend). The purpose of this paper is to...

In diesem Arbeitspapier geht es um die Interessenorganisation des wirtschaftlichen Mittelstands im politischen System der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Die Freien Berufe werden dabei als integraler Bestandteil des wirtschaftlichen Mittelstands angesehen. Ausgehend von der Hypothese, daß die diese...

The most significative text of the European Commission on the construction of a strategy for an Information Society is, undoubtly the document on “Job Opportunities in the Information Society”. The major dimension of the change process was not anymore the technological evolution one....