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Understanding how working time is organised and how this is impacting on balance of work versus private life is of … the relationship between paid employment and domestic activities, work–life balance and working time preferences across … the life course. …
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This paper develops data on the history of wages and prices in Beijing, Canton, Suzhou/Shanghai in China from the eighteenth century to the twentieth and compare them with leading cities in Europe, Japan and India in terms of nominal wages, the cost of living, and the standard of living. In the...
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This article mobilizes and integrates both existing and new time series data on real wages, physical heights and age-heaping to examine the long-term trend of living standards and human capital for China during the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Our findings confirm the existence of a...
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Sir Francis Bacon explored as a medical question the issue of how human life spans might be returned to the near … seventeenth century were inconclusive, and the hope that life could be prolonged for decades beyond the allotted eighty years was …, to extend the life of man-kinde to 1000, 900, or at the least to 600 yeeres?” Comparing the reception of information …
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This note investigates the extension of Roberts' price-independent welfare prescriptions toalternatives in which population size and composition can vary. We show that ethicallyunsatisfactory orderings result. Suppose that a single person is to be added to a populationthat is unaected in utility...
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vorliegende Arbeit erforscht die spätquartäre Vegetation-, Klima- und Feuerdynamik am Kilimanjaro, um das Verständnis der dortigen … der Reaktionsdynamik der Vegetation auf Veränderungen in der Umwelt. Die Ergebnisse beider Untersuchungen zeigen, dass … zwischen Pollen-Niederschlag und moderner Vegetation zu untersuchen, um die Rekonstruktionen der Vergangenheit zu kalibrieren …
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