This article is concerned with income utility of female entrepreneurs. It presents results of a study conducted among more than 150 women from Podkarpackie Region belonging to two groups: not planning to start their own business, and already engaged in these activities. The aim of this article is to show the relationship between entrepreneurial status and assessment of income utility in women`s households. Collected data were subject to statistical analysis including presentation of income distribution parameters in both groups, and estimating the parameters of the utility function of income based on van Praag’s model using a log-normal distribution. The results confirmed the hypothesis that compared to the group of non-entrepreneurs, women running their own business would require a higher income level to report the same level of utility.
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Przedmiotem artykułu jest użyteczność dochodów uzyskiwanych przez gospodarstwa domowe kobiet prowadzących działalność gospodarczą. Artykuł prezentuje wyniki badania ankietowego przeprowadzonego wśród ponad 150 respondentek z terenu województwa podkarpackiego, należących do dwóch grup: prowadzących działalność gospodarczą oraz nie planujących prowadzenia takiej działalności. Celem artykułu jest wykazanie zależności między faktem prowadzenia bądź nieprowadzenia działalności gospodarczej a oceną użyteczności osiąganych dochodów przez gospodarstwa domowe kobiet z obu grup. Zebrane dane zostały poddane analizie statystycznej obejmującej prezentację parametrów rozkładu uzyskiwanych dochodów w obu badanych grupach oraz estymację parametrów funkcji użyteczności dochodu na podstawie modelu B.M.S. van Praaga z wykorzystaniem dopasowania do rozkładu log-normalnego. Uzyskane wyniki potwierdziły prawidłowość zakładanej hipotezy o wpływie prowadzenia działalności gospodarczej na wskazywanie wyższych poziomów dochodów jako tak samo użytecznych w grupie badanych kobiet.
The aim of the article is to discuss on the basis of German and Polish law the consequences of the death of a business owner, when their business activity is closely linked to their skills and abilities, and such business activity had to be, after the business owner.s death, terminated or limited by their heirs. The article discusses the problem whether the heirs of the business owner can claim compensation from the person who was responsible for the death of the business owner under the tort law. It describes mainly the issue whether and when such a tort-feasor caused damage to the business owner’s estate and whether and when a claim for compensation for such damage could pass to the owner’s heirs. This issue is discussed based of the facts and reasoning of the German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) judgment of 20 February 1962, VI ZR 65/61. A compari-son of the BGH ruling and the opinions expressed in the German doctrine about this issue with corresponding opinions expressed in the Polish doctrine indicates that under both German and Polish law, claims for compensation resulting from the death of a business owner connected with the inability of their heirs to im-plement economic plans previously assumed by the business owner are not subject to inheritance. In such cases, no legal position arises during the life of the business owner into which his heirs can be introduced by virtue of law. It could not be argued that a legal situation was created before the business owner’s death from which claims could arise for the heirs after the business owner.s death. Neither could the existence of any future right on the owner’s part be compounded. These claims in both legal systems only arise after the death of the business owner as a result of the activity of the heirs. Therefore, the solutions of Polish and Ger-man law in this regard can be considered similar.
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