Fundierte Informationen über den Lebensstandard, die Einkommens- und Zeitsituation von Selbständigen - als Freiberufler und Unternehmer (Gewerbetreibende) - sind äußerst rar, obwohl diese Gruppe der Erwerbstätigen eine besondere Bedeutung als "Motor der Wirtschaft" zugesprochen wird. Unsere...

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...

Empirical analyses using cross-sectional and panel data found significantly higher levels of job satisfaction for self-employed than for employees. We argue that those estimates in previous studies might be biased by neglecting anticipation and adaptation effects. For testing we specify several...

Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdepend-ent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and income, which in particular restricts social...