Promoting minimum age of employment regulation has been a centerpiece in child labor policy for the last 15 years. If enforced, minimum age regulation would change the age profile of paid child employment. Using micro-data from 59 mostly low-income countries, we observe that age can explain less...

Although child labour itself is well researched, no reliable data yet exists on the level of wages for children, which are usually described as fluctuating. Here, using Saxony as an example, an attempt is made to trace the development of wages for children over almost a century. It shows that...

Little is currently known about the effects of shocks to parental health on the allocation of children's time between alternative activities. Using longitudinal data from the Ethiopian Young Lives surveys of 2006 and 2009, we analyse the effect of health shocks on the amount of children's time...

This paper examines the effect of child labour in the profitability of women owned enterprises. The study covered 429 women respondents who had access to microcredit in Morogoro and Iringa towns. We used the Ordered Probit to model the relationship between the predictors and the outcome...

To date, there has been little research on how advocacy coalitions influence the dynamic relationships between norms. Addressing norm collisions as a particular type of norm dynamics, we ask if and how advocacy coalitions and the constellations between them bring such norm collisions to the...

This paper examines the impacts of recent Australian welfare to work reforms for low-income parents of school-aged children who had been in receipt of Parenting Payment - the main welfare payment for this group - for at least one year. Specifically, the reforms introduced a requirement to engage...

Die neue Bundesregierung scheint bei ihren Vorstellungen zur weiteren Entwicklung der Sozialpolitik die Rolle des Sozialstaätes und der Versicherungssysteme in der sozialen Sicherung neu zu überdenken. Wie sind die bisher bekannten Reformabsichten zu bewerten?

Die Internet-Wirtschaft stellt das Ordnungsmodell der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft vor fundamentale Herausforderungen. Welche aktuellen Reformprozesse laufen in der Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik ab? Welche Gestaltungsoptionen haben die politischen Entscheidungsträger?