The article discusses the question whether or not family allowances have a strictly economic rationale.

This essential dimensions of microsimulation as an instrument to analyze and forecast the individual impacts of alternative economic and social policy measures are surveyed in this study. The basic principles of microsimulation, which is a tool for practical policy advising as well as for...

If certain start-up characteristics will indicate a business success, knowing such characteristics could generate more successful start-ups and more efficient start-up counseling. Our study will contribut e to this by quantifying individual success determinants of freelance start-ups. The data...

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 contribution analyzes income richness of elder persons in Germany in 2001. Using actual data of the German Wage and Income Tax Statistics, which are particularly suitable for the analysis of high incomes, new richness indices are discussed and new results are presented. It appears that the...