Die vorliegende Studie untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen Digitalisierungs- und Innovationsvorhaben in mittelständischen Unternehmen in Deutschland. Ausgangspunkt der Studie ist eine auseinanderlaufende Entwicklung der beiden Aktivitäten in den vergangenen Jahren. Während der Anteil der...

Deploying data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) we analyze the variability of individual earnings and equivalent household income. Permanent and transitory variances of male income over the period 1984-2008 are estimated for Old German Laender in order to determine their importance...

Welfare states redistribute both between individuals (inter-individual redistribution) reducing annual, cross-sectional inequality and over the lifecycle of an individual (intra-individual redistribution) insuring individuals against income risks in the long-term. But studies measuring...

High-worth individuals are typically underrepresented or completely missing in population surveys. The lack of a register-based sampling frame on high-worth individuals in many countries challenged previous attempts to sample high-worth individuals in voluntary scientific surveys. In a novel...