6.6 per cent in the years of 2001-03 (national level minus 8.7 per cent), and revenues
rose 5.4 per cent (minus 12.7 per cent) in the same timeframe. Companies with
employees subject to a social insurance contribution grew 25.8 per cent in this
timeframe (1.0 per cent), and the employees subject to a social insurance
contribution grew 31.0 per cent (minus 7.5 per cent). The number of statistically
recorded employees is likely to only represent a small portion of artists, who are
actually self-employed9, and thereby this number is an unsatisfactory value in the
evaluation of the development of these agents.
Using the group statistic as a basis, the development of the displayed visual artists
can be stated as a yearly growth rate of 3.6 per cent in the time period from 1995-
2005. This value lies slightly above the national average10.
3.5 Attractiveness of Urban Districts for Artists
In Berlin visual artists are remarkable spatial concentrated (see map 1).
In the favour of Artists are inner-city districts.
At the nomination of living and working places the most counts were the inner-city
districts (also in this order) Prenzlauer Berg, Kreuzberg, Mitte and Charlottenburg11.
Among the most popular districts were Mitte, Prenzlauer Berg, Kreuzberg and
Friedrichshain12.
Beside personal domain decisions cost minimized arguments counts as well as the
quality of socio-cultural and the image as a creative site. In an OLS regression with
three types of different urban districts the preferences of artists for locational site
factors were analysed. The working place of visual artists which was quoted in the
written survey is the crucial factor for building the dummy. For locational site factors
were the cultural offering, the image as creative site, the transport connection, the
proximity to customers, suppliers and colleagues and the estimated level of real
estate market prices in the districts selected. As an controlling predictor the two
accumulated age groups from 25 to 40 years were used to take them for artists who
are in the beginning of their careers.
9 In a study by Sondermann (2004), the assumed share of dependent employees amounted to 6 per
cent and the self-employed to 94 per cent.
10 While the named numbers of employees subject to a social insurance contribution are assigned an
industry branch, to which companies are in turn assigned, independent of what occupation is
exercised, the profession group statistic demonstrates an attempt to register every employee according
to his profession. Since 1995 these data have been combined for East and West Berlin.
11 The 23 „old“ districts were be available.
12 Due to overlaps, more than one answer was possible.
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