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Die Arbeitslosenversicherung in Deutschland – Beitrag zur Bekämpfung oder Ursache von Arbeitslosigkeit
Breiding, Torsten - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
benefit payments compared to the wage earned in available jobs - labour supply and matching - a theoretical approach to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008622251
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Marriage and Divorce in a Model of Matching
Mumcu, Ayse; Saglam, Ismail - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
We study the problem of marriage formation and marital distribution in a two-period model of matching, extending the … matching with bargaining framework of Crawford and Rochford (1986). We run simulations to find the effects of alimony rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836944
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Microfinance and Gender Empowerment
Ngo, Thi Minh-Phuong; Wahhaj, Zaki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In the past 30 years, microfinance has carried many promises of social and economic transformation, with the shift towards targeting women being seen as a major strategic move through which the promise of social development could be most effectively delivered. However, ethnographic studies have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836908
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Does Having a Newborn Child Affect Income Diversification Opportunities?: Evidence from the Peruvian Young Lives Study
Escobal, Javier; Suárez, Pablo; Huttly, Sharon; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The ability of households to diversify their income sources is strongly related to their capacity to cope in times of pressure, such as during economic crises. This is particularly so among the poor, who often do not have adequate resources on which to draw when under such pressures. Households...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111082
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Growing up together: Cohort composition and child investment
Jones, Kelly M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In sub-Saharan Africa, 60 % of child deaths are preventable by investments in child health as simple as immunizations, bed nets, or water purification. This article investigates how a household’s decisions regarding such investments are affected by the size and gender composition of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112449
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Unmarried adolescents and filial assistance in eighteenth-century Flanders
Lambrecht, Thijs A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Service was one of the main characteristics of the European Marriage Pattern in pre-industrial western Europe. During this stage of the life cycle adolescents could acquire the material assets and skills that were required to marry and start an independent household. Whilst in service, servants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644933
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Child-Custody Reform and Marriage-Specific Investment in Children
Nunley, John M.; Seals, Alan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Research on child custody primarily focuses on the well-being of children following divorce. We extend this literature by examining how the prospect of joint child custody affects marriage-specific investment in children’s private-school education. Variation in the timing of joint-custody...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005011944
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Divorce costs and marital dissolution in a one-to-one matching framework with nontransferable utilities
Saglam, Ismail - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In this paper, we use a two-period one-to-one matching model with incomplete information to examine the effect of … whether to stay married or to unilaterally divorce. We show that for any society, there exist matching environments where the … probability of the marital dissolution is not decreasing in divorce costs under a gender-optimal matching rule. In such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323647
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Beauty, Polygyny, and Fertility: Theory and Evidence
Cahu, Paul; Fall, Falilou; Pongou, Roland - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We propose a simple model of a mating economy in both monogamous and polygynous cultures, and derive implications for how polygyny affects individual and aggregate fertility. We find that an attractive woman is more likely to find a high-status husband. However, when polygyny is allowed,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109266
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The family under the microscope: an experiment testing economic models of household choice.
Munro, Alistair; Bateman, Ian J.; McNally, Tara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
We devise and execute three experiments to test key features of models of household decision-making. Using established couples (married and unmarried) we test income pooling, unanimity and Pareto efficiency. Subjects make choices individually and jointly and are asked to make predictions about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789369