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A Study on Emigration Attitudes of Young Singaporeans (2010)
Hoong, Leong Chan; Soon, Debbie - eSocialSciences - 2012
The study examines the intention to work abroad based on a representative sample of young Singaporeans residing in the city-state. Two thousand and thirteen Singaporeans between the age of 19 to 30 years took part in the research. [Working paper No. 19].
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Marital Sorting and Parental Wealth
Charles, Kerwin; Hurst, Erik; Killewald, Alexandra - In: Demography 50 (2013) 1, pp. 51-70
accounting for measurement error in spousal reports of parental wealth and for selection into and out of marriage. Copyright … study the degree to which spouses sort on the basis of parental wealth. We find that the estimated correlation in parental … wealth among married spouses, after controlling for race and age, is about .4. Importantly, we show that controlling for …
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Marital fertility and wealth in transition era France, 1750-1850
Cummins, Neil - HAL - 2009
analysis links highly detailed individual level fertility life histories to wealth at death data for four rural villages in …
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From Empirics through Interpretations to Understanding
Konstantinovskiy, David - In: Educational Studies (2012) 4, pp. 11-21
David Konstantinovsky, D.Sc. in Sociology, Director of the Center for Sociology of Education, Science and Culture, Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation. Email: scan21@mail.ru Address: Bld. 5, 24/35 Krzhizhanovskogo St., Moscow, 117218, Russian...
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Intergenerational financial transfers and health in a national sample from France
Scodellaro, Claire; Khlat, Myriam; Jusot, Florence - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 7, pp. 1296-1302
Financial transfers from parents to their adult children are a growing trend in contemporary societies, and this study investigates the relation of those transfers to their beneficiaries' health in France. In the 2005 nationally representative Gender and Generation Survey, nearly 6% of the...
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Intergenerational financial transfers and health in a national sample from France
Jusot, Florence; Khlat, Myriam; Scodellaro, Claire - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012
Financial transfers from parents to their adult children are a growing trend in contemporary societies, and this study investigates the relation of those transfers to their beneficiaries' health in France. In the 2005 nationally representative Gender and Generation Survey, nearly 6% of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706412
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Current social reforms in Germany: Inequality in the educational system
Shpilev, Dmitry; Iudin, Aleksandr - In: Educational Studies (2011) 1, pp. 125-142
In the present paper several articles concerned with current issues in educational system in Germany are analyzed to describe three problem groups: immigrants and their children, socially vulnerable groups (handicapped people, prisoners and those who were released from prison) and some groups of...
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Soziale Einstellungen in der Organisationsgesellschaft : betriebliche Strukturen und die gerechte Verteilungsordnung der Gesellschaft (Social attitudes in the organisational societ...
Liebig, Stefan; Krause, Alexandra - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 39 (2006) 2, pp. 255-276
"This paper examines the significance of income and career chances in the firm for attitudes regarding social justice. On the basis of organisational theory arguments from the more recent sociological class theories and the findings from labour-market and organisational research, the autonomous...
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The Use of Marriage Data to Measure the Social Order in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Bottero; Prandy, Kien - In: Sociological Research Online 3 (1998) 1, pp. 6-6
emphasises the value of the procedures used for understanding the nature of measurement in social science. …
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A new methodological approach for studying intergenerational mobility with an application to Swiss data
Jann, Ben; Seiler, Simon - University of Bern, Department of Social Sciences - 2014
development of intergenerational mobility in Switzerland. Based on a new harmonized database for Switzerland (comprising various …
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