on Lebanese households drawn from the National Household Budget Survey (2005) conducted by Central Administration of … Statistics (CAS). Controlling for household, household head, dwelling, and regional characteristics, we find that the probability …, and increases with aggregate household consumption. Furthermore, regional differences are found to be highly significant …

Over the past three decades Germany has repeatedly deregulated the law on temporary agency work by stepwise increasing …

With the development of household budget systems and with regard to the requirements of the European Union with new EU … particular the reconstruction of household budget surveys should deliver yearly results as well multi-annual sufficient large … sectional cumulation of five yearly Continuous Household Budget Surveys (Laufende Wirtschaftsrechnungen, LWR) which will be …

This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike …

-being inside couples. To our knowledge, this effect has never been taken into account by existing economic models of the household …

We assess the labor supply effects of two quot;making work payquot; reforms in Germany. We provide evidence in favor of …

compare effective average tax rates for different household types in France and Germany. Our analysis shows that the popular … in Germany, as it is often claimed in the public debate. We use two micro-data sets and a micro-simulation model to …. Actually, low income families with less than three children even fare better in terms of tax relief in Germany than in France …

This paper explores the importance of the household's financial position for an individual's level of well … household's monetary financial position on overall life satisfaction and financial well-being, with the latter being measured by … indicate that the household's level of net wealth, assets and debt are important determinants of overall life satisfaction and …

(2002) to an intertemporal setting. We first develop a theoretical model to analyze the intra-household distribution of … setting. We show that wages are positively related to household labor supply, although cross and lagged effects show negative … correlates. Furthermore, the ability of wives to negotiate the intra-household allocation of non-labor income is mainly driven by …