The suggestion of the EU Commission concerning the deregulation of liberal professions from 2003 plans to regulated occupations into one category. Various occupations, which have not fulfilled the conditions of independence and scientific qualification, yet, should be thereby being joined with...

What are "liberal professions"? Their essence, their importance for the person as an individual and as a social act? Who or what do libereal professions challenge if they ask for requirements for the "science"? The questions formulate the confrontation of the self-image of liberal professions...

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...

Even five years after the German reunification, beside the microcensus there is only one databasis in two parts that allows to analyse the structure of all self-employed professionals and their offices and practices in East and West Germany. In a first step, this paper presents a statistic -...

It is the growing societal interest about the individual and its behaviour in our and 'modern' societies which is asking for microanalyses about the individual situation. In order to allow these microanalyses on a quantitative and empirically based level microsimulation models were developed and...

This FFB-Discussion Paper documents the official speech by Professor J. F. Volrad Deneke to his award ('Doctor honoris causa') on May, 7, 1996 by the Department of Economic and Social Sciences of the University of Lüneburg. 'Freie Berufe und Mittelstand' ('Professions and Middle classes') is...

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:...

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...

This study commences a series of elementary papers concerning statistics and Professions. It includes essential statistics of Professions on an individual level, starting off with official statistics. This study deals with Freie Berufe im Mikrozensus I - Struktur und quantitative Bedeutung...