Are developing-world cities engines of opportunities for low-wage earners? In this study, we track a cohort of young low-income workers in Brazil for thirteen years to explore the contribution of factors such as industrial structure and skill segregation on upward income mobility. We find that...

This chapter provides an overview of the German long-term care insurance. We document care needs and wellbeing of the elderly population. Moreover, we provide a detailed description of the German long-term care institutions (sources of finance and types of benefits), the professional care work...

Der vorliegende Bericht verknüpft die Einzelergebnisse der vorangegangenen Studie (1998) für die projektierten Veränderungen der Tätigkeitsstrukturen der Vollzeit- und Teilzeiterwerbstätigkeit in den alten und den neuen Bundesländern mit der neuen sektoralen...