childbearing intentions among childless men and women in Austria. …

We analyse the effects of changes in parental leave regulations in Austria in 1990, 1996 and 2002 on second and third …

-take-up of monetary social assistance benefits in Austria in 2003. To account for likely measurement errors both in the reported … income data as well as in the simulation of household needs, participation rates are calculated for various scenarios of the …

In this paper, we conduct a dynamic panel analysis of the determinants of the household saving rate in China using a … life cycle model and panel data on Chinese provinces for the 1995-2004 period from China's household survey. We find that … China's household saving rate has been high and rising and that the main determinants of variations over time and over space …

some economic models of household decision-making. Subjects make choices individually and jointly and are asked to make …

This paper maps key indicators of household structure across all countries for all countries of the expanded European … Union except Malta. As well as presenting statistics which take the entire household as the unit of analysis, we also focus … on groups which are particularly interesting in terms of social policy, and for whom household composition may be …

In this paper, we present the results from a field study on smart metering in Germany and Austria, focusing on the … household electricity consumption. Explanatory variables include a wide range of socio-economic factors (income, education, age …, household size, age composition, etc.) as well as the household appliance stock (large appliances, boiler, com-puters, TV, etc …