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fathers and mothers and their children by drawing on a unique dataset of 1,999 members of Bangladeshi families, including 911 … children, aged 6-17 years, and 544 pairs of mothers and fathers. We find a large degree of intergenerational persistence as the … economic preferences of mothers and fathers are significantly positively related to their children's economic preferences …
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This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for … violate traditional gender identity norms. Using data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study we also find that the … exceeds the husband's income. The results of the fixed effects regression confirm that gender identity has an impact on the …
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different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the … formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … since reunification, converging to the more gender-egalitarian East Germany. Our work emphasizes the view that political and …
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This paper evaluates the impact on employment probabilities of two training programs funded by the European Social Fund in the province of Bolzano, Italy. The programs were addressed to particularly vulnerable groups which were much less skilled and educated than the control group from the...
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) positively correlated with their children's economic preferences, even when controlling for personality traits and socio … family into one of two clusters, with either relatively patient, risktolerant and pro-social members or relatively impatient …, risk averse and spiteful members. Socio-economic background variables correlate with the cluster to which a family belongs …
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In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained … theoretically by way of intra-family contracts. We develop a basic formal concept that includes aspects of the transnational network … immigrants have at least partly different determinants. Acquiring German citizenship increases the probability of family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274695
In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained … theoretically by way of intra-family contracts. We develop a basic formal concept that includes aspects of the transnational network … immigrants have at least partly different determinants. Acquiring German citizenship increases the probability of family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836668
International migration of people is a momentous and complex phenomenon. Research on its causes and consequences, requires sufficient data. While some datasets are available, the nature of migration complicates their scientific use. Virtually no existing dataset captures international migration...
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International migration of people is a momentous and complex phenomenon. Research on its causes and consequences, requires sufficient data. While some datasets are available, the nature of migration complicates their scientific use. Virtually no existing dataset captures international migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822284
We analyze the determinants of household work contracted in the German shadow economy. The German socio-economic household panel, which enumerates casual domestic employment, is used to estimate the demand for such household work. The regressors include regional wage rates, household income and...
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