research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap …

reurbanization trends are putting increased pressure on inner-city housing markets, resulting in affordability problems for low-income … assessing poverty in Germany, where many low-income households are increasingly exposed to risks of poverty despite not …

disposable income and a gain of leisure time - and the psychological (and cultural) notion of the lonely, sad empty nester. This … feelings of loss or loneliness for mothers and/or fathers following the departure of the last child from the family home. This … syndrome. Furthermore, the analysis considers the role of two key economic variables: consumption and leisure via the standard …

disposable income and a gain of leisure time - and the psychological (and cultural) notion of the lonely, sad empty nester. This … feelings of loss or loneliness for mothers and/or fathers following the departure of the last child from the family home. This … syndrome. Furthermore, the analysis considers the role of two key economic variables: consumption and leisure via the standard …

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … with sisters obtain lower education and give birth earlier than women with brothers. Our analysis shows that the family …

Emerging strands of research have examined the family spillover effects of health shocks, usually focusing on labour … on the healthy spouse's labour supply and mental health by gender and relative income status within the couple (i.e., the …' employment. This result is consistent with the added worker effect, although we find the magnitude of the increase in annual …

The leading evidence against the unitary household models is that who gets what is significantly dependent upon who … earns how much. However, it is difficult to pin down the causal effect of relative earnings on intra-household resource …'s individual budgets - pocket money. This unique data set allows for the specification of the simultaneous process of household …