Expenditures and their patterns over time are expressions of the standard of living of individuals, households, and the society they live in. Nevertheless social and economic analysis focused rather on the analysis of production than on consumption, and income was widely used as a main indicator...

The paper deals with margins of entrepreneurship where small business owners are almost working on their own having no or just a few employees and where one can find also people working with low returns and having firms without stability or prosperous dynamics. However, even the area of...

Grundsätzlich wird in der Literatur ein Anstieg an selbständig Erwerbstätigen konstatiert. Dabei handelt es sich allerdings um Analysen, die einerseits querschnittsbezogen sind und andererseits wenig ins Detail gehen. Bei einer Analyse ist aber auch die zeitliche Entwicklung zu beachten, da...

Topic of the paper is the development of professional self-employment during the last decades in Germany. The discussion is divided into a theoretical and an empirical section. The first theoretical part deals with the term entrepreneurship and asks for its overlapping with categories of...

The discussion on entrepreneurship often treats entrepreneurs as agents of ideas of economic change and growth. Entrepreneurs are considered to serve as potential multipliers delivering individual and social wealth and prosperity. In that context entrepreneurship has been treated as a rather...

Grundsätzlich wird in der Literatur ein Anstieg an selbständig Erwerbstätigen konstatiert.Dabei handelt es sich allerdings um Analysen, die einerseits querschnittsbezogen sind undandererseits wenig ins Detail gehen. Bei einer Analyse ist aber auch die zeitliche Entwicklungzu beachten, da ein...

Most of previous empirical analyses concerning the consumption of private households mainly took specific goods or groups of goods into consideration yielding rather a rag rug than a consistent picture. The aim of the analysis is to sort out some of the partially dispa-rate results and to draw...

In literature, a rise in the number of self-employed people is basically stated. The results are based on cross-section data from one year and for the most part the analyses are not very detailed. But in an analysis one also has to pay attention to the development over time, because a structural...

Expenditures and their patterns over time are expressions of the standard of living of individuals, households, and the society they live in. Nevertheless social and economic analysis focused rather on the analysis of production than on consumption, and income was widely used as a main indicator...

Bisherige empirische Untersuchungen zu den Ausgaben privater Haushalte waren zum Großteil güterspezifisch ausgerichtet, d. h. auf eine Gütergruppe oder auf ein einzelnes Gut bezogen. In ihrer Gesamtheit stellen sie solchermaßen eher einen Flickenteppich als ein in sich konsistentes Bild dar....