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The aim of this paper is to investigate how occupational prospects affect first-birth decisions of men and women. Contrasting the continental conservative German welfare state with the liberal market economy of the UK, the focus of analyses rests on how welfare state alignment affects fertility...
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Kinder zu versorgen sind, reicht das Einkommen der Eltern vielfach nicht aus, um die Familie existenzsichernd zu versorgen … Familie sowie fehlenden Qualifizierungsmöglichkeiten fehlen. Die Arbeitsvermittlung nimmt für Aufstocker-Familien dabei nur … anknüpfen. Von den Familien gewünschte Maßnahmen zur beruflichen Förderung bleiben aus oder die Bedarfe der Familie werden nicht …
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Using microdata for 35 countries over the period 1985-1994-2002 we find that labor market institutions traditionally associated to more compressed wage structures are associated to a higher family gap. Our results indicate that these policies reduce the price effect of having children but...
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In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and births as well as male employment, which entailed a work ban for the wife and sizeable credit deductions for children. This paper illustrates that the policy was rather...
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This paper uses ECHP and OECD data for 14 EU countries to explore the role of labour market factors in explaining cross-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on ECHP, minimum distance estimator is...
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The paper analyzes the effects of individual and household characteristics on current poverty status, while controlling for initial conditions, past poverty status and unobserved heterogeneity in 14 European Countries for the period 1994-2000, using the European Community Household Panel. The...
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