Grandparents act as the third biggest care giver besides day care and parental care for children below the age of 6 in … children's non-cognitive outcomes and parental well-being. To capture heterogeneous effects on different dimensions of children … panel data set, we analyze age-specific effects for families with children below the age of 11. Our preliminary results …

It has been shown that a person's relative income - compared to a reference group - has a negative impact on self … relative income is low. In this paper we study this hypothesis by estimating the effect of relative income on job mobility … characteristics. Our findings suggest that workers compare their own income to that of their neighbors, and low relative income is …

I investigate the impact of parental unemployment on children's educational attainment and long-run labor market … outcomes in Austria. I find that parental unemployment shortly before an important educational decision by parents for their … children lowers a child's probability of holding a university degree by more than 5 percentage points. I do not find that …

between the income of parents and that of their children. To understand the implications of polarization on economic mobility … lower upward mobility for children from low-income parents, higher intergenerational elasticity for children whose parents … from low-income parents if replacement of routine labor is high, and educational polarization for younger generations. I …

generation. However, the results are driven by individuals whose both parents were expellees and by the higher end of the …

soziales Kapital auch für alle anderen Familienmitglieder dar; Bildung, Einkommen und Status der Eltern sind wesentliche … Ressourcen für die Kinder. Diejenigen, die bereits in ihrer Kindheit und Jugend bessere individuelle Startpositionen hatten, sind … auch im Erwachsenenalter im Vorteil. Diejenigen, die Kinder haben, verfügen in höherem Alter über Unterstützungsressourcen …