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This paper investigates the co-movements of job security perceptions and household saving rates using data from the … generally accompanied by slightly lower saving which suggests that employment and financial insecurity typically go hand … saving behavior is found. This behavior is of rather small economic importance and limited to households that are somewhat …
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This paper examines the purpose of remittances using individual data of migrants in Germany. Particular attention is paid to migrants' savings and transfers to family members in the home country. Our findings indicate that migrants who intend to stay in Germany only temporarily have a higher...
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The 2008 alimony reform in Germany considerably reduced post-marital and caregiver alimony. We analyze how individuals adapted to these changed rulings in terms of labor supply, the intra-household allocation of leisure, and marital stability. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and...
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household could consume more in the current period (e.g., to the benefit of the children) if gender differences in saving … that female bargaining power has no or a negative influence on saving and wealth even when controlling for expectations of … the wife‘s bargaining power and attitudes towards current consumption proxied by repayments of consumer loans. Different …
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Overindebted private households have created economic and political concern. Using measures of relative (over-) indebtedness which relate household income and debt services to different concepts of subsistence levels, this paper investigates whether severe household indebtedness is driven by...
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performance. Recipients are thus likely to have a higher energy consumption and energy expenditures. Using a large data set of …
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sources of carbon dioxide. Private heating, electricity consumption or private transport are important key levers to reduce …
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marriage formation along educational lines. Our empirical analysis for Germany shows that educational assortative mating has …. -- Assortative marriage ; Microcensus ; education ; log-linear models …
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One third of all women experience violence within their lifetime, most frequently perpetrated by their intimate partner (IPV). It impacts women’s sexual, reproductive, and mental health, and increases the risk of chronic disease. Ways to reduce IPV are less obvious, though. Especially in rural...
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Electrification is frequently said to foster women's development and contribute to a modernization of gender roles. Using Demographic and Health Survey data from rural areas in 22 Sub-Saharan countries collected between 1999 and 2014, this paper examines the role of electricity access in...
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