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did not complete their terms of indenture; late arrival and early departure from the master’s household was widespread …
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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...
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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...
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the dynamics of vulnerable households in the UKusing Waves 1 - 12 of the British Household Panel Study and find that, of … threedifferent types of risks that we test for, household-specific shocks and economy-wideaggregate shocks have the greatest impact …
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Former Soviet Union. Datais used from the first nationally representative household surveyconducted in Tajikistan since …
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This article examines the role of family and the state in relation to theliving standards of the elderly in East Asia. It tries to test whetherfamilial arrangement according to Confucian ethics, which are still takenseriously in East Asia, secures the minimum standards of living for theelderly....
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and the first sixwaves of the British Household Panel Survey to examine why olderpeople’s employment has fallen, which … work are low. Transitionsbetween unemployment, long-term sickness and retirement aresignificant, and almost always weaken …
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) household income dynamics. This is largelybecause of the difficulties created by the fact that on top of the humancapital issues … that arise in personal earnings, individuals are continuallyforming, dissolving and reforming household units. This paper … proposesa framework for modelling household income dynamics. it emphasisesthe role of household formation and dissolution, and …
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twolongitudinal studies, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and theNational Child Development Study (NCDS) are used to address …
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household formation tenyears on. We find that alcohol and soft drug consumption have noharmful effects on economic prospects in … the individuals’backgrounds. However, we find no evidence of any of these behaviourssignificantly affecting household …
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