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How Germans use their time
Scheffel, Juliane - 2011
percent more of their disposable time on childcare. The results are generalizable to Germany as a whole. The paper provides …
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Evaluating the statistical power of goodness-of-fit tests for health and medicine survey data
Steele, Michael; Smart, Neil; Hurst, Cameron; … - 2009
power study are Pearson’s Chi-Square, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test statistic for discrete data, the Log-Likelihood Ratio, the …
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Destructive leadership in family businesses: Modelling social exchange between generations
Robinson, David; Harvey, Michael G.; Yupitun, Mark - 2009
The purpose of this article is to address the effects of social exchange, in particular leadership communication, between the current leader of a family business and the prospective future leader when one is the parent and the other, a next-generation offspring. In light of previous literature...
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Gender Equality in Reconciling Work and Childcare in South Korea
Lee, Kook Hee - 2009
childcare. The comparative study on the U.S. and German system is the basis for the legislative model. This paper selects the U … for men and women to participate in childcare in practice. Therefore, the current system in South Korea is not enough for … gender equality in reconciling work and childcare.The U.S. system guarantees the gender neutral parental leave system. The …
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Working, But Poor: A Study of Georgia's Economic Self-Sufficiency Policies
Hayes, Rosa B. - 2006
earnings failed to pull them and their families out of poverty. Assistance in the form of childcare, transportation, medical …
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Some child cost estimates for South Africa
Sienaert, Alexis - 2008
The heterogeneous demographic composition of South African households means that the way that household income or expenditure is converted into an individual-level welfare measure is likely to matter. This paper examines the monetary and time costs of the most common economic dependents in...
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The new discrimination and child care
Apps, Patricia - 2007
Over the last decade a number of countries, notably the USA, theUK and Australia, have introduced new tax and welfare programs,or expanded existing programs, that have the effect of raising taxrates on the income of the second earner in the family. Examplesinclude the earned income tax credit...
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Five essays on early education and workplace training
Mühler, Grit - 2010
With its recently announced strategy "Europe 2020", the European Union picks up two major challenges: transforming the economy into a knowledge society with innovation as the main driver of economic growth and cohering a population whose workforce is shrinking and aging. Two benchmarks of this...
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Der Einfluss von Steuern auf Investitions- und Arbeitsangebotsentscheidungen - Experimentelle Analysen zur Wahrnehmung der Steuerbelastung
Fochmann, Martin - 2011
Eine Vielzahl von Ökonomen untersucht mit Hilfe verschiedener theoretischer Modelle, inwiefern Steuern Einfluss auf wirtschaftliche Entscheidungen haben. Eine grundlegende Annahme in diesen Modellen ist dabei die Abwesenheit von Fehlwahrnehmungen. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, systematische...
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Financial Incentives and the Timing of Retirement - Empirical Evidence from Switzerland and Germany
Hanel, Barbara - 2010
Die Arbeit untersucht in drei unabhängigen Studien Determinanten der Renteneintrittsentscheidung. Es werden drei natürliche Experimente ausgewertet, die sich aus Reformen der Alterssicherungssysteme in Deutschland und der Schweiz ergeben haben und die Identifikation kausaler Effekte erlauben....
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