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This Policy Note reports on the analyses undertaken in a number of wiiw Working Papers that are the output of two projects financed by the Anniversary Fund of the Austrian National Bank (Project no. 18474 and no. 17166). Four of the papers are based on survey data from the FIMAS dataset, which...
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This doctoral thesis analyses the impact of education and other determinants on labour market outcomes using microeconometric methods. Chapter 1 serves as an introduction. Chapter 2 uses a randomised field experiment among German human resource managers to evaluate which skill signals such as...
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This volume was prepared by Jens Ruhose while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the...
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The aim of the thesis is to gain a better understanding of the relationship between education, skills and labor-market outcomes. Based on high-quality skill data from the PIAAC Survey of Adult Skills, Chapter 2 studies the effect of schooling on cognitive skills, exploiting the staggered...
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This report uses data on food and non-alcoholic drink purchases from shops, takeaways, restaurants and other outlets to analyse how the diets of a large, representative panel of households in Great Britain evolved 15 months before and up to 24 months after the start of the onset of the COVID-19...
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Policies that aim to reduce the prevalence of obesity have been high on the policy agenda for many years - see, for … example, DHSC (2020) and Dimbleby (2021). Understanding the costs associated with obesity is important for informing policy …. Bell and Deyes (2022) have recently produced what are, to date, the most detailed estimates of the costs of adult obesity …
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Der demografische Wandel und die damit einhergehende Alterung der Gesellschaft sowie Reduktion der Erwerbsbevölkerung stellen große gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen dar. Der Bedarf an familiärer Pflege wird infolge der zunehmenden Alterung der Gesellschaft weiter steigen. Die...
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In Deutschland fühlt sich etwa jede zehnte Person oft oder sehr oft einsam. Der Großteil von 60 Prozent hat dieses Gefühl nur selten oder nie. Das zeigen Auswertungen aktueller Daten des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels (SOEP) aus dem Jahr 2017. Entgegen der häufigen Annahme, dass die Einsamkeit...
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With the population ageing the development of sustainable long-term care institutions is of great importance in many European countries. In Poland, currently dominant, traditional and family based care will become insufficient with increasing cohorts of older people. Presented paper discusses...
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German fertility rates are far below the replacement level, meaning that its population is projected to shrink. This implies a threat to sustainable economic growth and the stability of the social security system. Thus, fertility behavior is of highest interest for policymakers. Economic...
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