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This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while Italian women have the lowest market employment rates....
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The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural households. The complex interactions uncovered by the...
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This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while Italian women have the lowest market employment rates....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268955
This paper is focused on couple households where the wife is the main earner. The economic literature on this subject is particularly scant. According to our estimates, the wife was the main earner in one of every six couple households in France in 2002, including wife-sole-earner households....
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model jointly to services trade and commercial presence (i.e. FDI), using a composite model of delivery that offers testable … hypotheses about the roles of different modes of services supply as complements or substitutes. We further link our estimates to … and financial services as showing the largest potential for cross-border trade when market regulations are reduced and …
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particular focus on regulated prices and services for the individual EU15 countries, as well as for the EU15 and the euro area … aggregates. We show that services and HICP sub-indices considered being subject to price regulation exhibit larger degrees of … index increases and decreases. With regard to what extent services and regulated prices contribute to the degree of overall …
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Im Kontext des BMBF-geförderten Verbundprojekts INSELpro bieten Prosumer ihre Dienste auf einem Markt der örtlichen Nachbarschaftsdienstleistungen an. Hilfebedürftigen Mitbürgern in einem geografischen Quartierbereich werden über die Dienstleistungsplattform zu ihrer jeweiligen...
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This paper identifies the varieties and dynamics of service economies in Europe, analysing the role of knowledge base and innovative efforts and their evolution across time and countries. Results based on aggregated macroeconomic data indicate that there is no convergence trend towards a single...
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75.80% in the economy as a whole, i.e., 2.5 times more than in the OECD area on average. The growth in the services … of the Finnish services sector has not yet reached that of the leading countries. In some services industries, e.g., in …
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