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A lost generation? Long term socioeconomic outcomes in orphans

Bozzoli, Carlos - 2010

educational achievements, but that it may also leave a long-lasting imprint in terms of employment and fertility patterns. …

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The good governance indicators of the millennium challenge account: How many dimensions are really being measured?

Knoll, Martin; Zloczysti, Petra - 2011

This paper assesses the validity of the perception-based governance indicators used by the US Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) for aid allocation decisions. By conducting Explanatory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of data from 1996 to 2009, we find that although the MCA purports to measure...

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Accounting for poverty differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2002

across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the … 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher …-relevant characteristics, in particular higher employment rates. …

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Zur Dynamik von Erwerbstätigkeit und ehrenamtlichem Engagement in Deutschland

Erlinghagen, Marcel - 1999

Auf der Suche nach Strategien zur Überwindung der langanhaltenen hohen Arbeitslosigkeit in vielen (westlichen) Industriegesellschaften geraten seit einiger Zeit - insbesondere in Deutschland - auch sogenannte "Zivilgesellschaftliche Dienstleistungsnetzwerke" (wieder) in das Blickfeld der...

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Ganztagsschulen und Erwerbsbeteiligung von Müttern: Eine Mikrosimulationsstudie für Deutschland

Beblo, Miriam; Lauer, Charlotte; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2005

Der Ausbau von Ganztagsschulen genießt derzeit – u.a. auf Grund des schlechten Abschneidens deutscher Schüler bei der PISA-Studie – hohe Priorität in der politischen Agenda. In diesem Beitrag soll untersucht werden, wie sich der Ausbau von Ganztagsschulen auf die Erwerbsbeteiligung von...

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Do ethnic minorities 'stretch' their time? Evidence from the UK time use survey

Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010

This paper investigates the effect of ethnicity on time spent on overlapped household production, work and leisure activities employing the 2000-2001 UK Time Use Survey. We find that, unconditionally, white females manage to stretch their time the most by an additional 233 minutes per day and...

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Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work

Constant, Amelie F.; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, … - 2006

The European Union?s strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority …

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Household survey data for research on well-being and behavior in Central Asia

Brück, Tilman; Esenaliev, Damir; Kroeger, Antje; … - 2012

This paper summarizes the micro-level survey evidence from Central Asia generated and analyzed between 1991 and 2012. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household-level surveys undertaken in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan - and...

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Risk aversion and trade union membership

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2008

that an overall increase in risk aversion contributes to wage moderation and promotes employment. …

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Can child care policy encourage employment and fertility? Evidence from a structural model

Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2009

In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal … feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility … decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer system which differs by employment state and number of children. To …

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