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Zeit für Familie – Thema des 8. Familienberichts
Auer, Wolfgang; Hofmann, Herbert; Rainer, Helmut; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Am 28. Oktober 2011 wurde in Berlin der 8. Familienbericht an die Bundesministerin für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und … Jugend übergeben. Er beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema »Zeit für Familie« und mit den Notwendigkeiten und Möglichkeiten einer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019385
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Öffentlich geförderte Kinderbetreuung in Deutschland
Rainer, Helmut; Auer, Wolfgang; Bauernschuster, Stefan; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Am 28. Oktober 2011 wurde in Berlin der 8. Familienbericht an die Bundesministerin für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und … Jugend übergeben. Er beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema »Zeit für Familie« und mit den Notwendigkeiten und Möglichkeiten einer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019618
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Is the fertility response to the Australian baby bonus heterogeneous across maternal age? Evidence from Victoria.
Sinclair, Sarah; Boymal, Jonathan; Silva, Ashton J de - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
around family formation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111316
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Policies to Promote Growth and Economic Efficiency in Mexico
Arias, Javier; Azuara, Oliver; Bernal, Pedro; Heckman, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
regulation. We focus on two issues that should receive more attention in discussions of Mexican policy. (1) The family is under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596429
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Matching Markets with N-Dimensional Preferences
Flanders, Sam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Abstract. This paper analyzes matching markets where agent types are n-vectors of characteristics--i.e. points in R^n --and agents prefer matches that are closer to them according to a distance metric on this set (horizontal preferences). First, given a few assumptions, I show that in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110355
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Costly Divorce and Marriage Rates
Yurko, Anna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper develops a model of choice between marriage and cohabitation to study the effect of divorce costs on marriage decision. The paired agents are heterogeneous, the utility is non-transferable, and break up and divorce decisions are modeled explicitly as unilateral, that is, it takes the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113905
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Institutions, Family and Economic Performance
Cid, Alejandro; Viana, Luis; Presno, Ignacio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
It is usual to formulate policies that react on the consequences, not the causes of family structure. In the design of … toward efficient institutions. The purposes of this paper are: a) to analyse the family trends in past decades; b) to … consider the economic externalities of the family (child rearing and human capital investment; social assistance for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114063
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How Would your Kids Vote if I Open my Doors? Evidence from Venezuela
Rodriguez, Francisco; Wagner, Rodrigo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
For how long does cultural heritage persist? Do the culturally inherited values of immigrants dilute as generations pass? We answer these question by studying the relationship between revealed political behavior of immigrant families and the culture of the place where they migrated from, either...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559011
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The Value of Commitment: Marriage Choice in the Presence of Costly Divorce
Yurko, Anna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
and raising children. In addition to that, individuals may decide to formalize this contractual relationship by holding a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468155
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Income, gender and consumption: A study of Malawian households
Davies, Simon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper uses 1998 household level data from urban Malawi to look at the impact on consumption patterns of the share of total household income accruing to different individuals within the household. Specifically, male and female income shares and other factors which may influence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621457