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Income Transfers to the Elderly in East Asia:Testing Asian Values
Kwon, Huck-ju - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1999
This article examines the role of family and the state in relation to theliving standards of the elderly in East Asia … theelderly in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. It argues that public policy inthe region assumes the family as primarily …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008733272
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The Divorced and Who Divorces?
Kiernan, Kathleen; Mueller, Ganka - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998
from the Family Resources Survey is used to identifythe characteristics of the divorced population. In the second part … twolongitudinal studies, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and theNational Child Development Study (NCDS) are used to address … adulthood. A number of insights emergedfrom our longitudinal analyses as well as from the cross-sectional analysisof the Family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756564
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Report to Incommunities on the About Turn Project
Power, Anne T.; Lane, Laura; Serle, Nicola - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008
has examined the tenancy records, evidence from staff interviews and family development, in order to highlight how much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836908
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Housing Outcomes: An Assessment of Long-Term Trends
Orr, James A.; Peach, Richard W. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999
of the household’s income, andthe household’s assessment of the quality of its neighborhoodand of its local public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870043
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How Important Is the Stock Market Effect on Consumption?
Ludvigson, Sydney C.; Steindel, Charles - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999
movements inthe stock market. From mid-1994 to mid-1997, the aggregate value of household sector equityholdings (including those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870062
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Does Consumer Confidence Forecast Household Expenditure? A Sentiment Index Horse Race
Bram, Jason; Ludvigson, Sydney C. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1998
[...]This study is the first formal investigation ofconsumer attitudes that compares the forecasting power ofthe University of Michigan’s Index of Consumer Sentimentand the Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index.We begin with a background analysis of structural differencesbetween the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870102
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Market Returns and Mutual Fund Flows
Remolona, Eli M.; Kleiman, Paul; Bocian, Debbie Gruenstein - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1997
[...]In this study, we use recent historical evidence toexplore one dimension of the broad relationship betweenmarket returns and mutual fund flows: the effect of shorttermmarket returns on mutual fund flows. Research onthis issue has already confirmed high correlations betweenmarket returns and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870270
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Rules and Reality: Quantifying the Practice of Apprenticeship in Early Modern Europe
Minns, Chris; Wallis, Patrick - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009
did not complete their terms of indenture; late arrival and early departure from the master’s household was widespread …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870488
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From Economic Convergence to Convergence in Affluence? Income Growth, Household Expenditure and the Rise of Mass Consumption in Britain and West Germany, 1950-1974
Kramper, Peter - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000
The “Golden Age” of post-war European economic growth has witnessedextraordinary changes not only in the economic, but also in the social andcultural outlook of Western European societies. Eric Hobsbawm’s statementthat “[h]istorians of the twentieth century in the third millennium will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870754
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Mapping Poverty in Agar Town: Economic Conditions Prior to the Development of St. Pancras Station In 1866
Swensen, Steven P. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
In 1866, the Midland Railway Company demolished Agar Town,an area Victorian writers called the foulest slum in London, tomake way for the development of St Pancras railway station.Most Londoners lauded the action. But what kind of tenantsactually inhabited the area before it was destroyed, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870937