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Union instability as an engine of fertility? A micro-simulation model for France
Thomson, Elizabeth; Winkler-Dworak, Maria; Spielauer, Martin - 2009
Micro-level relationships between union formation or dissolution and childbearing have implications for fertility that … variation and change around replacement level fertility. On the one hand, union dissolution reduces opportunities for conceiving …' children. The balance between these two opposing forces and their implications for fertility levels is unknown and will depend …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352592
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Income distribution and macroeconomics revisited: The role of fertility adjustment
Nakagawa, Masao; Sugimoto, Yoshiaki - 2009
This paper develops a theory in which households prepare for future education by adjusting the number of children they intend to raise. Income inequality lowers output per worker only if the inequality is attributed in some part to unexpected disturbances after childbirth.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332195
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Cross-national differences in income poverty among Europe´s 50+
Hallberg, Daniel - 2006
This paper studies income poverty among the 50+ population in 10 EU countries using newly collected data from the SHARE (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) project. A measure of the household's disposable annual income is used. Relative income poverty range from 10 percent (in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321533
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Intergenerational transmission of healthy eating behaviour and the role of household income
Goode, Alison; Mavromaras, Kostas; Smith, Murray - 2008
This paper investigates the possibility of intergenerational transmission of unhealthy eating habits from parents to adult children. It uses the 2003 Scottish Health Survey and estimates the association between the present healthy eating behaviour of adult children and the past parental death...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268566
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Food price inflation and children's schooling
Grimm, Michael - 2008
I analyze the impact of food price inflation on parental decisions to send their children to school. Moreover, I use the fact that food crop farmers and cotton farmers were exposed differently to that shock to estimate the income elasticity of school enrolment. The results suggest that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271077
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Firm consolidation and labor market outcomes
Dobbelaere, Sabien; McCormack, Grace; Prinz, Daniel; … - 2022
Using rich administrative data from the Netherlands, we study the consequences of firm consolidation for workers. For workers at acquired firms, takeovers are associated with a 8.5% drop in employment at the consolidated firm and a 2.6% drop in total labor income. These effects are persistent...
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Shocks, income diversification and welfare in developing and transition countries
Omar Mahmoud, Toman - 2010
This dissertation takes a welfare perspective to analyze how rural households in developing countries manage risks ex-ante and cope with shocks ex-post. The first part looks at risk-coping strategies and analyzes the socio-economic consequences of AIDS-related mortality in rural sub-Saharan...
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Economic downturn and stress testing European welfare systems
Figari, Francesco; Salvatori, Andrea; Sutherland, Holly - 2010
As unemployment rises across the European Union (EU) it is important to understand the extent to which the incomes of the new unemployed are protected by tax-benefit systems and to assess the cost pressures on the social protection systems of this increase in unemployment. This paper uses the EU...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288276
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Protection and the determinants of household income in Tanzania 1991-2007
Leyaro, Vincent; Morrissey, Oliver - 2010
This paper analyses the association between household characteristics' in particular size and location, and for the household head age, sector of employment (and the tariff applicable to that sector) and education - and household income using data from the Tanzania Household Budget Survey for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288543
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The British household panel survey and its income data
Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2010
This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net household income are derived. The BHPS net household income...
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