Liberal Professions in the Microcensus I - Structure and Quantitative Importance Based on the First Results for East and West Germany in 1991

FFB Discussion Paper No. 15

51 Pages Posted: 17 Jun 2009

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Joachim Merz

Research Institute on Professions; Research Institute on Professions; Leuphana University of Lueneburg; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Date Written: August 1995

Abstract

This study commences a series of elementary papers concerning statistics and Professions. It includes essential statistics of Professions on an individual level, starting off with official statistics.

This study deals with Freie Berufe im Mikrozensus I - Struktur und quantitative Bedeutung anhand erster Ergebnisse für die neuen und alten Bundesländer 1991. Firstly, the special suitability of the microcensus as a representative set of statistics about the population and the labor market based on a broad design (800000 interviewed persons) for Professions research will be discussed. Secondly, the structure and the quantitative significance of Professions in the early stage of the unified Germany will be pointed out having a look at different approaches regarding the western parts and the former eastern communist areas of the unified Germany. Further emphasises and empirical results: women in Professions as well as the development of Professions since 1987 based on the microcensus. This first systematic and broad microcensus analysis of Professions during the phase of building up the unified Germany is still of a fundamental significance.

Keywords: liberal professions in the microcensus I, job market, Neue und Alte Bundesländer, women on the job

JEL Classification: J16, J20, J23, D30, D31

Suggested Citation

Merz, Joachim and Merz, Joachim, Liberal Professions in the Microcensus I - Structure and Quantitative Importance Based on the First Results for East and West Germany in 1991 (August 1995). FFB Discussion Paper No. 15, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1421167

Joachim Merz (Contact Author)

Research Institute on Professions ( email )

Lüneburg
Germany

Research Institute on Professions ( email )

Lüneburg
Germany

Leuphana University of Lueneburg

Scharnhorststrasse 1
Lüneburg, 21314
Germany

Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

P.O. Box 7240
Bonn, D-53072
Germany

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