Skill mismatch is a key indicator of labour market research that has received significant attention. To date, various approaches of test-based measurement of skill mismatch have been used in research, generating differing results. However, it remains unclear which method is the most valid for...

Der ökonomische Strukturwandel moderner Industriestaaten hat deren Arbeitsmärkte hinsichtlich der Struktur der Beschäftigungsverhältnisse nachhaltig verändert. Die Transformation der traditionellen Wohlfahrtsstaaten, die Deregulierung des Arbeitsmarktes, der technologische Wandel und die...

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...

An outstanding microdatabase for the analysis of income and its distribution is the Income and Consumption Survey (EVS). However, high income above the 35.000 DM household net income per month frontier are not available. In this study we analyse for the first time, which distributional...

Die Studie untersucht die Einkommen und die Einkommensverteilung der Freien Berufe anhand der Mikrozensusergebnisse für die neuen und alten Bundesländer 1991. Sie folgt dem grundlegenden Papier über die Struktur und die quantitative Bedeutung der Freien Berufe anhand derselben Mikrodatenbasis...

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...

This study examines the income and its distribution of Professions from the results of the microcensus of the year 1991 concerning the western parts and the former eastern communist areas of the unified Germany. It follows the elementary paper about the structure and the quantitative...

Long-term labour market projections are a popular tool for assessing future skill needs and the possibility of skill shortages. It is often noted that reallocation processes in the German labour market are hindered due to its strong standardization and occupational segmentation. However, it is...

In our study: “How to become an entrepreneur, how to become a professional?” we would like to present, after a brief empirical presentation of the development of the entrepreneurs and professions in Germany, a manual on how to reach entrepreneurial or professional self-employment. We would...