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The American family in black and white: A post-racial strategy for improving skills to promote equality
Heckman, James J. - 2011
In contemporary America, racial gaps in achievement are primarily due to gaps in skills. Skill gaps emerge early before children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly linked to inequality in family environments. Schools do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278496
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Child poverty and changes in child poverty in rich countries since 1990
Chen, Wen-Hao; Corak, Miles - 2005
This paper documents levels and changes in child poverty rates in 12 OECD countries using data from the Luxembourg Income Study project, and focusing upon an analysis of the reasons for changes over the 1990s. The objective is to uncover the relative role of income transfers from the state in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272015
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Do Europe's minimum income schemes provide adequate shelter against the economic crisis and how, if at all, have governments responded?
Marchal, Sarah; Marx, Ive; Van Mechelen, Natascha - 2011
The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changes that have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens with adequate resources for financial survival when labour markets fail to do so. Building on data for 24 European Union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282192
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Villages where China's ethnic minorities live
Gustafsson, Björn; Sai, Ding - 2006
This paper investigates how ethnic minorities in rural China are faring compared with the ethnic majority. The village … is the unit of analysis and large surveys for 2002 are used. Minority villages in northeast China are found to have a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274058
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Health outcomes and socio-economic status among the elderly in China: Evidence from the CHARLS pilot
Srauss, John; Lei, Xiaoyan; Park, Albert; Shen, Yan; … - 2010
We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China …). We use the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) pilot data to document health conditions among the … China, particularly so for the aged. In general education tends to be positively correlated with better health outcomes, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274567
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A call for comparative research: Consequences of a rising income inequality for state activities
Neubäumer, Renate - 2011
The aim of this discussion paper is not only to activate a debate over the interrelation between rising income inequality and economic policy measures but also to initiate comparative research in several European countries and North America. It discusses the consequences of a rising income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278315
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Is the Chinese growth miracle built to last?
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2007
, especially those related to having an open capital account, do not loom large in the case of China. In the process of securing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268159
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The rise and fall of the Normalarbeitsverhältnis in Germany
Pierenkemper, Toni - 2009
The following paper attempts to trace the construction of the standard employment contract in Germany from the beginning of the 19th century onwards. It was from this point in time that wage labour slowly came into being and later on developed more broadly. At first, state regulations were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269080
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Work disability, work, and justification bias in Europe and the U.S.
Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; van Soest, Arthur - 2009
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do? A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different groups...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276704
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Trust of second generation immigrants: Intergenerational transmission or cultural assimilation?
Moschion, Julie; Tabasso, Domenico - 2013
This paper studies the respective influence of intergenerational transmission and the environment in shaping individual trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and in the host country to separate the effect of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293233