We study three budget-neutral reforms of the German tax and transfer system designed to improve work incentives for people with low incomes: a feasible flat tax reform that provides a basic income which is equal to the current level of the means tested unemployment benefit, and two alternative...

There is a large body of literature analyzing the relationship between objective economic conditions and voting behavior, but there is very little evidence of how perceived economic insecurity impacts on political preferences. Using seventeen years of household panel data from the German...

The Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II) is a multidisciplinary study that allows for the investigation of how a multitude of health status factors as well as many other social and economic outcomes interplay. The sample consists of 1,600 participants aged 60 to 80, and 600 participants aged 20 to...

I -- E-Business — Quo Vadis? Analyses and Perspectives -- Geschäftsmodelle — ein Modebegriff auf der Waagschale -- Kundenbindungsmanagement bei Internet-Geschäftsmodellen — eine empirische Analyse -- II -- E-Strategie am Beispiel der Deutschen Bank — ein Bericht aus der Praxis --...

E-Technologien revolutionieren die Geschäftsprozesse im Management. Sie reduzieren Transaktionskosten in einzelnen Geschäftsprozessen wie Vertrieb, Entwicklung, Produktion und Logistik. Transparenz und Geschwindigkeit werden zum Erfolgsfaktor für Geschäftsideen, die E-Technologien als...