This paper describes portfolio choices of German households in the 1980s and 1990s, presenting stylized facts and analyzing recent trends in asset ownership rates and asset shares on the basis of financial accounts and survey data...

In diesem Arbeitspapier werden die Ergebnisse einer schriftlichen Befragung von 330 Schülerinnen und Schülern an drei ländlich-kleinstädtischen Grundschulen in Nordrhein-Westfalen und Niedersachsen vorgestellt. Gegenstand der Fragen waren das Taschengeld und das Sparverhalten. Die erhobenen...

In diesem Beitrag werden die Chancen und Hemmnisse einer Förderung regu-lärer Beschäftigung im Bereich haushaltsbezogener Dienstleistungen analysiert. Nach den bisheri-gen Erfahrungen mit entsprechenden Ansätzen im In- und Ausland ist es in diesem Bereich zwar mög-lich, durch Subventionen...

This paper uses recently digitised samples of apprentices and masters in London and Bristol to quantify the practice of apprenticeship in the late 17th century. Apprenticeship appears much more fluid than is traditionally understood. Many apprentices did not complete their terms of indenture;...

The “Golden Age” of post-war European economic growth has witnessedextraordinary changes not only in the economic, but also in the social andcultural outlook of Western European societies. Eric Hobsbawm’s statementthat “[h]istorians of the twentieth century in the third millennium will...

A century ago, Thorstein Veblen introduced socially contingent con-sumption into the economic literature. This paper complements the scarceempirical literature by testing his conjecture on South African householddata and nds that Black and Coloured households spend relatively moreon visible...

In 1866, the Midland Railway Company demolished Agar Town,an area Victorian writers called the foulest slum in London, tomake way for the development of St Pancras railway station.Most Londoners lauded the action. But what kind of tenantsactually inhabited the area before it was destroyed, and...

In this paper we examine the concept of “vulnerability” within the context of incomemobility of the poor. We test for the dynamics of vulnerable households in the UKusing Waves 1 - 12 of the British Household Panel Study and find that, of threedifferent types of risks that we test for,...

This paper examines the profile of poverty in Tajikistan, the most remoteand poorest of the independent states of the Former Soviet Union. Datais used from the first nationally representative household surveyconducted in Tajikistan since independence and the cessation of the civilwar. The...