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We compare patterns of movements into and out of poverty by children in Britain and Germany using data from the British … children in lone parent households and households with a non-working head. Events such as family formation and dissolution, and … allem Kinder in Alleinerziehenden-Haushalten und Haushalten mit nicht-erwerbstätigem Haushaltsvorstand dauerhaft arm …
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estimation based on stochastic non-smooth envelopment of data (StoNED) allows for productivity estimation with few microeconomic …
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Scale characteristics are key properties of production functions that determine optimal firm sizes, and have considerable policy implications for sectors undergoing restructuring. However, estimates of scale characteristics typically vary with the assumptions of the underlying empirical model....
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East German wages have been below the West German wage level since unification. Moreover, the East-West wage gap implied by the contractual wages specified in collective wage agreements is drifting ever further apart from the wage gap in terms of effective wages. This paper looks at the role of...
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Untersucht wird der Einfluss des Humankapitals, der Arbeitsmarktlage, der familiären Situation sowie der Persönlichkeitseigenschaften und sozialen Ressourcen auf die individuelle Arbeitslosigkeitsdauer anhand des Sozioökonomischen Panels (SOEP) in West- und Ostdeutschland. Es wird eine...
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into and out of the poorest fifth of the children's income distribution. We find significant (but not total) uniformity in …
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nation-specific costs of having children as measured by time-budget data, by attitude data from the International Social …
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Our paper contributes to the literature studying how household conditions can influence children's development …, focusing on the type of family model where children grow up, defined on the basis of parental employment status and relative …-breadwinner" arrangement. How do different family models influence the development of children's skills? We use data from the Millennium Cohort …
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Argentina hit world news headlines in 2002 due to the largest debt-default in history and a sudden economic collapse reminiscent of economic statistics from the Great Depression. In this article, we focus on other consequences of the crisis that are not so obvious, but that may linger for...
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