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Gender-specific job choices - implications for career education as part of economic education

Wiepcke, Claudia - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 2 (2011) 4, pp. 355-368

and women's professions - the so-called gender-specific segregation - is one of the most enduring socio …-structural characteristics of the labour market. Although an increasing labour participation of women can be observed in the German labour market …

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Incentives for Women to Work: A Comparison between The Netherlands, Sweden and West Germany

Gustafsson, S.S.; Bruyn-Hundt, M. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 18 (1991) October, pp. 30-65

Compares the way women are taxed in the Germany, Sweden and The Netherlands by looking at both macro and micro data …. Taxing husbands and wives by adding joint incomes and dividing by two (as in Germany) penalises dual-earner couples and … without introducing the positive effects seen in Sweden. Tax incentives are not the only determinant of women's participation …

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Honey, I shrunk the kids’ benefits—revisiting intergenerational conflict in OECD countries

Krieger, Tim; Ruhose, Jens - In: Public Choice 157 (2013) 1, pp. 115-143

Intergenerational conflict may arise when the interests of different age groups do not align. We examine cross-country data to find evidence for this conflict in OECD countries. We derive our results from a FGLS estimation model, which is complemented by a System-GMM estimation to account for...

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Family policy and couples’ labour supply: an empirical assessment

Guest, Ross; Parr, Nick - In: Journal of Population Economics 26 (2013) 4, pp. 1631-1660

This paper empirically examines the effect on couples’ labour supply of a universal at-birth cash benefit and a government subsidy equal to 50% of child care expenditure for working parents. The method is first to simulate the effects on labour supply over the adult lifecycle using a...

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Towards a Framework for Assessing Family Policies in the EU

Lohmann, Henning; Peter, Frauke H.; Rostgaard, Tine; … - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2009

“score cards”. This “score card-approach” is illustrated for three countries: Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom. The …

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Family Policy in Hungary: How to Improve the Reconciliation between Work and Family?

Hemmings, Philip - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007

Hungarian family policy focuses on providing generous options to take time off work to look after children. This system not only contributes to Hungary’s low employment rate but encourages long separation from the labour market, has largely failed to significantly influence fertility rates and...

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Parental leave — A policy evaluation of the Swedish “Daddy-Month” reform

Ekberg, John; Eriksson, Rickard; Friebel, Guido - In: Journal of Public Economics 97 (2013) C, pp. 131-143

Many governments are making attempts to increase fathers' share of parental leave in order to correct for unequal labor market outcomes. Using Swedish data, we ask whether fathers can be encouraged to take more parental leave in order to mitigate the negative consequences of mothers' career...

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Venture capital programmes in the UK and Germany: In what sense regional policies?

Sunley, Peter; Klagge, Britta; Berndt, Christian; … - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 2, pp. 255-273

Sunley P., Klagge B., Berndt C. and Martin R. (2005) Venture capital programmes in the UK and Germany: in what sense … UK and Germany have been constructed as regional policy interventions. It begins by explaining two justifications for …

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Spatial policies for regional sustainable development: A comparison of graphic and textual representations in regional plans in England and Germany

Duhr, Stefanie - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 9, pp. 1167-1182

representations in regional plans in England and Germany, Regional Studies 39 , 1167-1182. Cartographic representation in strategic … plans in England and Germany were analysed to identify the extent to which sustainable development has been translated into …

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Rückgang der Bevölkerung – Zunahme der Pflegefälle Divergierende Entwicklungen in Deutschland bis 2050

Bomsdorf, Eckart - In: AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv 4 (2010) 1, pp. 3-18

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