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The First World War and Working-Class Food Consumption in Britain

Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

In this paper we reassess the food consumption and dietary impact of the regimes of food and food price control and eventually, food rationing, that were introduced in Britain during the First World War. At the end of the War the Sumner Committee was convened to investigate into effects of these...

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Urban Working-Class Food Consumption and Nutrition in Britain in 1904

Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

food consumption. We also find that the lower tail of the household nutrition distribution drops away very rapidly, so that …

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The Transformation of Hunger Revisited

Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew T.; Bezabih, Mintewab - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We examine Trevon Logan's 2009 claim to have found low levels of nutrition among British worker's households in the …

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15 Years of Pension Reform in Germany: Old Successes and New Threats

Bonin, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

-term sustainability. We argue that the latest reforms have moved pension provision in Germany in principle from a defined benefit to a …

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Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in Services: Direct Evidence from a Firm Survey

Radowski, Daniel; Bonin, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

The paper uses a new German employer survey on wage setting practices to analyze incidence and sources of nominal wage rigidity in services vs. manufacturing. We observe that wage freezes are significantly more frequent and wage cuts less frequent in services. Reasons preventing wage cuts...

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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Bonin, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

provisions on worker flows. In contrast to the predictions of the theory, our results indicate that there are no statistically …

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Workfare: Eine wirksame Alternative zum Kombilohn

Bonin, Holger; Schneider, Hilmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In the debate on in-work benefits in Germany it is often overlooked that such subsidies may only be effective if basic …

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Arbeitsmarkteffekte und finanzpolitische Folgen der demographischen Alterung in Deutschland

Arnds, Pascal; Bonin, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Demographic Aging in Germany Germany faces a demographic aging process which affects the working-age population first. This paper …

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Direct Evidence on Risk Attitudes and Migration

Jaeger, David A.; Bonin, Holger; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

markets in Germany. This result is robust to stratifying by age, sex, education, national origin, and a variety of other …

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Will it Last? An Assessment of the 2001 German Pension Reform

Bonin, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

In May 2001, Germany adopted a fundamental pension reform cutting back public pensions and introducing personal pension …

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