The distribution of societal resources is of high societal, economic and social policy importance. What is missing are reliable data above all about high income. This study will contribute to a well-founded analysis of high income for self employed – as (liberal) professions and entrepreneurs...

Analysis about the structure and allocation of a phenomenon need micro data – individual data of the affected people. In our contribution we introduce a new mighty resource of micro data for income analysis: The Income Tax Statistic with anonymized individual data of approximately 30 million...

The cumulation of household samples is on the agenda of a new regulation of European household surveys. Within the framework of the German Federal Statistical Office project ‘Official statistics and socio-economic analyses’ and with EUROSTAT requirements for new household samples (EU-SILC)...

An outstanding microdatabase for the analysis of income and its distribution is the Income and Consumption Survey (EVS). However, high income above the 35.000 DM household net income per month frontier are not available. In this study we analyse for the first time, which distributional...

The distribution of societal wealth and income is of central importance for the economic, social and cultural development of a country. Independent of the respective economic and social scientific perspective the income distribution is a central brick explaining economic growth and labour market...

Information domain time use: This is the topic of this expert opinion for the commisssion to improve the informational infrastructure between sciences and statistics, which is supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Following a given structure the content encompasses:...

Earlier this year the results of the study ”old-age security in Germany 1996 (AVID 96)“ have been published. This study describes the future age-income-situation of the currently employed population. An essential element is the estimation of future individual working-biographies. This...

It is the aim of this study to discuss 'the shadow economy and job creation' based on empirical results. After the discussion of the topic in the economy, social policy and society, the following empirical discussion and the empirical foundation are asking for a clear and distinct and given...

The Department of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Lüneburg has appointed the 'Doctor honoris causa' to Professor J. F. Volrad Deneke on 7.5.1996. The Laudatio is published in this FFB-Discussion Paper. An appreciation of Professor J. F. Volrad Deneke's scientific services of...

In our study: “How to become an entrepreneur, how to become a professional?” we would like to present, after a brief empirical presentation of the development of the entrepreneurs and professions in Germany, a manual on how to reach entrepreneurial or professional self-employment. We would...