Showing 1 - 10 of 150
Marriage is an important institution for both individuals and society as a whole. It is a significant event in the life cycle of individuals; for society at large it represents the creation of a new unit of production, consumption, distribution and exchange of goods and services. In most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438848
The analytical framework proposed by Davis and Blake (1956) divides the process of reproduction into three elements: (i) exposure to the risk of pregnancy, (ii) the ability to conceive and (iii) successful gestation. This paper is concerned with the first element. Data from the 1973 National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439137
In the ¯rst of the essays, I reassess the relationship between premarital cohab-itation and marital instability both … theoretically and empirically. It has become astylized fact that premarital cohabitation is positively correlated with the … cohabitation and would only get married if they antic-ipated a successful marriage. One prominent explanation for the antithetic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429603
In the United States, low-income people are not evenly distributed across the rural-urban landscape. Does this … address this question, I use data from nine waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to track economic well … estimated in which the dependent variable is a householder's income to need and explanatory variables are individual attributes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443009
real terms. Ninety five per cent of the income of medical schemes was derived from membership fees. The average real growth … rate of income was 8.4 per cent, while net assets increased by only 3 per cent. An average deficit of R11.02 million …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009480497
With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates worldwide. This paper describes the nature ofunemployment among young men in urban Ethiopia. We analyse the determinants ofincidence and duration and find that most variables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441517
Health, like schooling, is a form of human capital and can be expected to be positively related to labor productivity and labor supply. The production of good health and labor productivity, however, sometimes competes with an individual's lifestyle, e.g., binge drinking. In this study, an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443113
develop youth entrepreneurship, because it can be solvation of such social – econimie problems as: unemployment, depopulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009478412
The aim of the master thesis is to analyze the situation in youth labour market of the Baltic countries. In order to … estimate tendencies in changing rates of youth employment and unemployment, statistic data and theoretical forecast have been …. The paper aims at presenting the situation of youth employment in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia while comparing it with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009478670
Object of the research – factors and promotion measures of youth entrepreneurship. Aim of the research – to reveal the … most important factors and promotion measures of youth entrepreneurship and to make a model of youth entrepreneurship in … Lithuania. Objectives of the research: 1) to analyze the concept of entrepreneurship; 2) to reveal the factors of youth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009478755