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Raising Canadian Living Standards: A Framework for Analysis
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 5 (2002) Fall, pp. 23-40
The living standards in Canada, defined as real GDP per capita, declined relative to those in the United States in the 1990s. A key challenge facing Canadians is the reversal of this situation. In this article, Andrew Sharpe of the Centre for the Study of Living Standards develops a framework...
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Mutual dependency : offshored labour and family organisation in post-socialist Romania
Miszczyński, Miłosz - In: Organization : the interdisciplinary journal of … 27 (2020) 5, pp. 641-659
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Role of education, age, and family size on food insecurity in Pakistan : a quantile regression analysis
Cheema, Ahmed Raza; Saleem, Adeel; Visas, Hubert; … - In: The European journal of development research 34 (2022) 5, pp. 2576-2597
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Do joint custody laws improve family well-being? : joint child custody laws affect not only divorced families but intact families as well
Halla, Martin - 2015
Custody laws governing living arrangements for children following their parents' divorce have changed dramatically since the 1970s. Traditionally, one parent - usually the mother - was assigned sole custody of the child. Today, many divorced parents continue to share parental rights and...
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The lasting effect of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family : evidence from World War II in Russia
Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2016
How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by …, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower rates of marriage and fertility, higher nonmarital births and reduced … bargaining power within marriage for women most affected by war deaths. The impact of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family …
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The effects of recessions on family formation : fertility and marriage rates are pro-cyclical in many countries, but the longer-term consequences are inconclusive
Kondo, Ayako - 2016
Low fertility rates are a cause of social concern in many developed countries, with growing youth unemployment often being considered a primary cause. However, economic theory is not conclusive about whether deterioration in youth employment prospects actually discourages family formation or for...
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Should common law marriage be abolished? : the availability of common law marriage may affect couple formation, labor supply, and the decision to have children
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2016
In addition to regular marriage, Australia, Brazil, and 11 US states recognize common law (or de facto) marriage, which … allows one or both cohabiting partners to claim, under certain conditions, that an informal union is a marriage. France and … some other countries also have several types of marriage and civil union contracts. The policy issue is whether to abolish …
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Childlessness and economic development : a survey
Baudin, Thomas; De la Croix, David; Gobbi, Paula E. - 2019
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Globalization, gender, and the family
Keller, Wolfgang; Utar, Hale - 2018
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Childlessness and economic development : a survey
Baudin, Thomas; De la Croix, David; Gobbi, Paula E. - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064819