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Life course pathways to business start-up
Jayawarna, Dilani; Rouse, Julia; Macpherson, Allan - In: Entrepreneurship and regional development : an … 26 (2014) 3/4, pp. 282-312
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Who benefits from an adult worker model? : gender inequality in couples' daily time use in Germany across time and social classes
Deuflhard, Carolin - In: Socio-economic review 21 (2023) 3, pp. 1391-1419
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Parental leave and maternal labor supply : parental leave increases the family-work balance, but may have negative impacts on mothers' careers
Kunze, Astrid - 2016
Numerous studies have investigated whether the provision and generosity of parental leave affects the employment and career prospects of women. Parental leave systems typically provide either short unpaid leave mandated by the firm, as in the US, or more generous and universal leave mandated by...
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The kids are alright? : a note on parental satisfaction in Germany
Humpert, Stephan - In: Theoretical and applied economics : GAER review 22 (2015) 2, pp. 285-292
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The stress cost of children
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Wooden, Mark - 2015
We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how demographic events affect perceived time and financial stress. Consistent with the view of measures of stress as proxies for the Lagrangean multipliers in models of household production,...
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Economic and social perspectives of immigrant children in Germany
Frick, Joachim R.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2001
Overall, children in Germany live in households with below average incomes; therefore social policies that address the … vulnerable position of Germany?s children are necessary. These policies should cover targeted financial transfers as well as … improvements in day care provision for children. With respect to selected non-monetary as well as monetary indicators our empirical …
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A note on the importance of normalizations in dynamic latent factor models of skill formation
Del Bono, Emilia; Kinsler, Josh; Pavan, Ronni - 2020
Research on child skill formation and related policies typically rely on parent- reported measures of child non-cognitive skills. In this paper, we show that parental assessments of child non-cognitive skills are directly affected by the skills of the parents. We develop a dynamic model of child...
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Parental unemployment, social insurance and child well-being across countries
Hansen, Kerstin F.; Stutzer, Alois - 2020
Based on a unique repeated cross-sectional data set of school-aged children in Europe, the Middle East and North … America, we analyze how children's subjective well-being is related to parents' employment status, depending on the … institutional context. We find that parental unemployment is strongly negatively related to children's life satisfaction across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295227
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Obesity and developmental functioning among children aged 2-4 years
Cawley, John H.; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2008
developmental functioning of children at younger ages (2-4 years) than ever previously examined. Data from the German Socio … the correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that the correlation …
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Child deprivation and social benefits : Europe in cross-national perspective
Bárcena Martín, Elena; Blázquez Cuesta, Maite; … - In: Socio-economic review 15 (2017) 4, pp. 717-744
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