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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693840
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163485
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163489
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Lingering Illness or Sudden Death? Pre-Exit Employment Developments in German Establishments
Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271998
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Establishment Exits in Germany: The Role of Size and Age
Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Using comprehensive data for West Germany, this paper investigates the determinants of establishment exit. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649816
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Survival of Spinoffs and Other Startups: First Evidence for the Private Sector in Germany, 1976-2008
Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
find that spinoffs are less likely to exit than other startups. We show that in West and East Germany and in all sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010686907