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Policies to promote growth and economic efficiency in Mexico
Arias, Javier; Azuara, Oliver; Bernal, Pedro; Heckman, … - 2010
This paper discusses the problems facing the Mexican economy. It operates under a heavy burden of monopoly and regulation. We focus on two issues that should receive more attention in discussions of Mexican policy. (1) The family is under stress in Mexico and this retards the growth of skills of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274259
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Who leaves the city? the influence of ethnic segregation and family ties
Zorlu, Aslan - 2008
mobility behaviour of migrants and natives are generated by neighbourhood characteristics - among which the level of ethnic … individual data covering the entire population of the city. The analysis shows that Caribbean (Surinamese and Antillean) migrants … significantly hamper the out-mobility of all individuals. The impact of family ties is the largest for Turkish and Moroccan migrants. …
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Location choices of migrant nest-leavers: Spatial assimilation or continued segregation?
Zorlu, Aslan; Mulder, Clara H. - 2010
We examine ethnic differences in the ethnic composition of the destination neighbourhood upon leaving the parental home using administrative data for the entire birth cohort 1983 living in the Netherlands. The analysis provides little evidence of a clear intergenerational break in the location...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285523
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Fertility, human capital accumulation, and the pension system
Cremer, Helmuth; Gahvari, Firouz; Pestieau, Pierre - 2009
This paper provides a unified treatment of externalities associated with fertility and human capital accumulation as they relate to pension systems. It considers as overlapping generations model in which every generation consists of high earners and low earners with the proportion of types being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266047
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Family dissolution and public policies in Germany: Social provisions and institutional changes since the 1980s
Wörz, Markus - 2011
Germany has long been faced with low birth rates and a pronounced aging of society. Recently divorces and single parenthood have been on the rise. Family policies and regulations dealing with family break-up are thus confronted with new and greater challenges. After describing important changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308441
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Family dissolution and public policies in the United States: Social provisions and institutional changes since the 1980s
Grell, Britta - 2011
As a consequence of changing patterns of family formation and dissolution in the western world, national welfare institutions confront new demands to accommodate such issues as disproportionate poverty risks among single-mother families, increased requirements for non-parental child care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308451
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Fostering the emancipation of young people: Evidence from a Spanish rental subsidy
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa; Oppedisano, Veruska - 2012
In Southern Europe youngsters leave the parental home significantly later than in Northern Europe and United States. In this paper, we study the effect of a monthly cash subsidy on young adults' emancipation, family formation, and fertility. The subsidy, introduced in Spain in 2008, is...
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Why are mothers working longer hours in Austria than in Germany? A comparative micro simulation analysis
Dearing, Helene; Hofer, Helmut; Lietz, Christine; … - 2007
Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are much higher among Austrian mothers. In order to find out to what extent these differences can be attributed to differences in the tax transfer-system, we perform a comparative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293998
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Why are mothers working longer hours in Austria than in Germany? A comparative micro simulation analysis
Dearing, Helene; Hofer, Helmut; Lietz, Christine; … - 2007
Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are much higher among Austrian mothers. In order to find out to what extent these differences can be attributed to differences in the tax transfer system, we perform a comparative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294601
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Technology, institutions and allocation of time in Swedish households 1920 - 1990
Svensson, Lars - 2008
The modernisation of Swedish households during the twentieth century prompted a considerable productivity growth in household production, which reduced the time input for a fixed volume of routine household work by about 35 per cent 1920-1990. Much of that time was gradually transferred to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273966