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Can Anyone Be 'the' One? Evidence on Mate Selection from Speed Dating
Belot, Michèle - 2011
Marriage data show a strong degree of positive assortative mating along a variety of attributes. But since marriage is an equilibrium outcome, it is unclear whether positive sorting is the result of preferences rather than opportunities. We assess the relative importance of preferences and...
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Labour supply and labour force participation in Europe : a discussion of some recent developments and projections
Chagny, Odile; Döpke, Jörg; Plane, Mathieu; Schmidt, … - 2001
The prospects for labour supply in Europe are considered. The analysis begins with a so-called labour market balance covering the development on an aggregate level. Estimations to shed light on the relation between unemployment and labour force participation are given in the second part of the...
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Income Mobility in Old Age in Britain and Germany
Büchel, Felix - 2008
Germany during the 1990s, and by identifying personal attributes and life-course events that influenced its direction and … different welfare regimes. Results show that old-age income mobility is more pronounced in Britain than in Germany, and that in … life, more so in Germany than in Britain …
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Migration and remittances nexus : economic implications and analysis
Strielkowski, Wadim; Šperková, Lenka; Jacek, Brożyna - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 19 (2017) 46, pp. 772-789
The main goal of our paper was to apply our research methodology on the specific case of the Ukrainian migration and … remittances in the Czech Republic. In contrast to previous studies, we provide a more detailed insight into the specifications of … having skilled position. Our results demonstrate that reverse economic effects of remittances on the source country might be …
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Migration in comparative perspective : Caribbean communities in Britain and France
Byron, Margaret; Condon, Stéphanie A. - 2008
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Labour market segmentation within ethnic economies : the ethnic penalty for invisible Kurdish migrants in the United Kingdom
Kesici, Mehmet Rauf - In: Work, employment and society : a journal of the British … 36 (2022) 2, pp. 328-344
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Who delays childbearing? The relationships between fertility, education and personality traits
Tavares, Lara Patrício - 2010
Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, this paper assesses the in uence of personality traits on the timing of motherhood and investigates whether, and in what way, personality traits can explain the differences in maternity timing between more and less educated women. We estimate a...
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Remittance markets in Africa
Mohapatra, Sanket (contributor); Ratha, Dilip K. (contributor) - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011484
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Differential mortality in the UK
Attanasio, Orazio; Emmerson, Carl - 2001
In this paper we use the two waves of the British Retirement Survey (1988/89 and 1994) to quantify the relationship between socio-economic status and health outcomes. We find that, even after conditioning on the initial health status, wealth rankings are important determinants of mortality and...
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Living arrangements in Western Europe: does cultural origin matter?
Giuliano, Paola - 2006
Why are there such large differences in living arrangements across Western European countries? Conventional economic analyses have not been successful in explaining differences in living arrangements and particularly the dramatic increase in the fraction of young adults living with their parents...
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