A comparison of women's and men's economic relations in the former East and West Germany (in this paper henceforth … of varying opportunity structures on the extent of and change in women's relative contribution to family income. East … motion a rapid transformation of East German institutions and employment structures. The analysis shows that women in the …

consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income should predict both stock returns and housing returns. We use quarterly data for … wealth held in the form of housing (i.e., when stock and housing assets are substitutes), then they will temporarily reduce …

deviations from the common trend among consumption, aggregate wealth, and labour income, cay, and focus on the implications for …

This paper investigates the relationship between wealth, ageing and saving behaviour of private households by using … pooled cross sections of German consumption survey data. Different components of wealth are distinguished, as their impact on … wealth. In addition, the savings rate strongly responds to demographic trends. Besides the direct impact of the age structure …

analysis affects wealth distri-bution and inequality analysis. Obviously, when measured in "per capita household" terms, wealth … households, and also provides evidence of a significant persisting gender wealth gap. Secondly, we find multiple imputation to be …The definition and operationalization of wealth information in population surveys and the corresponding microdata …

non-monetary aspects evolves over changing wealth levels. Wages do not perfectly compensate individuals for differential … utility of jobs in a labour market with informational frictions. Changes in wealth may then affect preferences for different … increase with wealth shocks. Duration models are estimated based on the reduced form of a search model. Wealth may play an …

enrolment rates. Instrumental variable estimates show that the effect of household income on children's school enrolment is much …

confined to men. In particular, administrative data from public pension systems are less reliable for women because of the … loose relationship between own earnings and household income. Following the procedure first used by Hupfeld (2010), we … analyze a large data set from the German public pension scheme on women who died between 1994 and 2005, employing both non …

This paper explores the use of informal credit as a strategy for managing risks by market women in northern Ghana. A …. Based on qualitative data, the analysis reveals that market women invest a considerable amount of time in maintaining … high transaction costs and prevents market women from growing out of poverty in the long term. …