The traditional Gross Domestic Product (GDP) reflects the money value of the annual economic output produced by the domestic industries' employees. Thus, the GDP fully accounts for paid work. In contrast, unpaid work remains unconsidered. However, measured in time units, unpaid work clearly...

Die in diesem Diskussionspapier zusammengefassten Beiträge von Carsten Stahmer (Halbtagsgesellschaft: konkrete Utopie für eine zukunftsfähige Grundsicherung), Ronald Schettkat (Dienstleistungen zwischen Eigenarbeit und Professionalisierung) und Gerhard Scherhorn (Demokratisierung des...

Since summer 2001 a project group at the German Federal Office of Statistics is developing a socio-economic reporting system for Germany. This system shall describe current societial trends based on a system of national accounts. It shall help to develop integrated socio-economic scenarios of a...

Since summer 2001 a project group at the German Federal Office of Statistics is developing a socio-economic reporting system for Germany. This system shall describe current societial trends based on a system of national accounts. It shall help to develop integrated socio-economic scenarios of a...

The study identifies women's volume of paid and unpaid work in time units and money values. Therefore, German time use data are combined with the monetary input-output table (IOT) for the year 2000 and its inverse matrix. While the IOT provides information about the industries' direct and...