"In the past decades self-employment has gained in importance in the majority of EU Member States. In particular the proportion of small and one-person businesses shows an increasing trend. In contrast to the classical research into business start-ups, which usually focuses on sustainability in...

The European Union is currently experiencing a kind of renaissance of selfemployment. As part of this trend, the share of self-employed workers who are operating their enterprises without the support of dependent employees is growing particularly evidently. Members of this category of...

The emergence of new self-employment presents a challenge to political actors both in the individual European countries and at the EU level. The new selfemployed are exposed to the same social risks as dependent employees, but they generally enjoy fewer social and labour rights. How are social...

Objective: To determine 1. whether influenza vaccination in the elderly is cost effective or cost saving compared with a non-intervention strategy and 2. whether it is worth framing a vaccination policy for this population. Background: Influenza causes substantial morbidity and mortality in...

This paper provides a review and evaluation of different food-risk prioritization and management frameworks that have been developed by governmental food-safety authorities, regulatory agencies and non-governmental institutions worldwide. It emphasizes the need for a new science- and risk-based...

Objective: To determine what benefits to the employer and to society are associated with influenza (flu) vaccination in healthy adults. Design and methods: We performed a literature review concerning cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness evaluations of influenza vaccination in healthy, working-age...

To lower the incidence of human food-borne disease, experts and stakeholders have urged the development of a science- and risk-based management system in which food-borne hazards are analyzed and prioritized. A literature review shows that most approaches to risk prioritization developed to date...

Meat recalls have the potential to adversely affect the demand for meat due to the associated decline in consumers and investors’ confidence. The objective of this study is to investigate the impacts of Escherichia Coli O157:H7 recall announcements on the nearby cattle futures prices using...

In dem folgenden Papier werden Entwicklungen der Erwerbsarbeit in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland seit der Nachkriegszeit aufgezeigt, die vom „Normalarbeitsverhältnis zur Flexibilisierung“ führen. Aufgezeigt wird auch, wie diese Entwicklungen in der politischen Debatte um die...

In dem folgenden Papier werden grundlegende Entwicklungen des Familien- und des Erwerbsbereichs in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland für die Zeit nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs bis zur Gegenwart aufgezeigt. Ab 1990 werden Trends in Ostund Westdeutschland getrennt beschrieben, da nach wie vor...