Begriffliche und theoretische Grundlagen -- Unterschiede zwischen Familien- und Publikumsgesellschaften -- Bedeutung von Familien- und Publikumsgesellschaften im internationalen Kontext -- Zusammenfassung und Ausblick.

Eine bedeutende Zielgruppe für Industrie und Handel, auch bezüglich des Konsums von alltäglichen Gebrauchsgütern, sind die 18-29jährigen Konsumenten. Allgemeine Verhaltensschemata lassen sich auf diese jungen Konsumenten häufig nicht mehr anwenden, da es sich heute um einzelne kulturelle...

Men at the bottom quintile of the German male earnings distribution had lower average earnings in 2019 than in 2001. In contrast, female earnings have increased throughout the distribution. What explains these diverging trends and how did they translate into changes in net income? Data from the...

Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place embeddedness of self-employment. It examines...

Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set of endowed circumstances beyond the sphere of individual responsibility. In this paper, we suggest a new estimator based on a fixed effects panel model which...

Before the 90s, men's employment careers in East and West Germany were quite similar, despite their widely differing institutional settings. Before reunification, employment biographies were mainly dominated by full-time employment in both East and West. After 1989 the GDR was incorporated into...