The paper combines conceptual thoughts on the development of self-employment within stratified modern societies with empirical reflections based on public census data for Germany. Talk about the rise and future of self-employment must be linked to the discussion about changes in the structure of...

Abstract: Innovationen in der Gesundheitswirtschaft erzeugen branchenübergreifend Wachstum und Strukturwandel. Durch Innovationen gelingt den Unternehmen die Anpassung an eine sich verändernde Nachfrage- und Anbieterstruktur.Zum gesamtwirtschaftlichen Wachstum tragen die Verflechtungen mit...

Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dirk Henke/Sabine Troppens, TU Berlin Dr. Grit Braeseke/Birger Dreher/Meiko Merda, IEGUS Volkswirtschaftliche Bedeutung der Gesundheitswirtschaft Innovationen, Branchenverflechtung, Arbeitsmarkt Auf der Grundlage eines Forschungsprojekts im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums...

We present Turkey’s manufacturing-sector innovation data and, for the first time, analyze likely relationships among GDP growth, sectoral innovation intensities, energy consumptions, and energy-saving potentials. We detect a power-law-like relationship between the projected energy-saving...

The paper investigates investment decisions by using a new source of data, that is the OBI annual survey on firms. The main focus of our analysis mainly is the influence of credit market conditions on investment decisions and we find that the main obstacle to the investment is the level of...

A growing number of studies that look at the relationship between innovation and exports find that more innovation tends to allow firms to export more. But very little is known about the heterogeneous impacts of innovation on exports. Since innovation is not a costless activity, it is important...