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This article investigates the impact of unemployment on the likelihood of having a first child. Using micro-data from the European Community Household Panel, I apply event history methods to analyze first-birth decisions in France, West Germany, and the UK (1994–2001). The results highlight...
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-risks be related to labour market performance? In other words, to what extent do the fertility decisions of successfully …
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Deutschland ist in den Bemühungen, die hohe Arbeitslosigkeit deutlich zu verringern, in den letzten Jahren nicht sehr …, daß das Problem einer hohen Arbeitslosenquote grundsätzlich unlösbar sei. Zeigt doch der internationale Vergleich, daß in … Arbeitsmärkten der alten und der neuen Bundesländer. Gezeigt wird, daß in Frankreich, ähnlich wie in Deutschland, vornehmlich eher …
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We examine the poverty rates and the income configurations among Japan and the LIS countries. The LIS countries are Germany, Italy, the UK, Denmark, the US, and Taiwan. We divide household including elderly into five types: living alone, couples only, living with their married children, living...
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facts about the correlation of fertility and income and on the income situation of families in order to provide a sound … order to measure the relevance of the economic situation for the fertility decision. The paper is organised as follows … Income Study (LIS), the study analyses the correlation between income and fertility. Next an investigation of the economic …
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This paper summarizes a set of expert reports commissioned by the IFAU. The expert reports cover Estonia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. These countries represent range of welfare states, both in terms of scope and design. And in each country there are...
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In diesem Artikel konzentrieren wir uns auf die vergleichende Perspektive bei der Anwendung des Konzepts der Übergangsarbeitsmärkte auf Arbeitszeitregime in verschiedenen Ländern. Eingangs untersuchen wir Tendenzen bei der Regulierung und Verteilung der Normalarbeitszeit in ausgewählten...
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The trend towards activation has been one of the major issues in recent welfare and labour market reforms in Europe and the US. Despite considerable initial variation across national models with respect to the scope and intensity of activation, redefining the link between social protection and...
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beschäftigungsfreundlich ausgestaltet werden müssen. Mit Hartz IV wurde in Deutschland - im Vergleich zu andern Ländern - relativ spät aber … umfassend reformiert. Im internationalen Vergleich ist die SGB II-Reform insofern singulär, als dass mit der Einführung der …
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This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by bad occupational prospects and impending economic deprivation, placing the well-being of a future family at risk. I analyze unemployment at the intersection of state-dependence...
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