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The paper combines conceptual thoughts on the development of self-employment within stratified modern societies with empirical reflections based on public census data for Germany. Talk about the rise and future of self-employment must be linked to the discussion about changes in the structure of...

This study was prepared by Nina Czernich while she was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research.It was completed in December 2010 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. The study addresses the question whether the emergence of...

Achtzig herausragende Persönlichkeiten jeder Couleur nehmen dazu Stellung, wie unser Land in den Bereichen Bildung, Wirtschaft, Arbeit, Gesundheit, Politik und Gesellschaft zukunftsfähig gemacht werden kann