We use the last two waves of the Italian Time Use Survey to analyse the intergenerational transmission of reading habits. This can be explained by both cultural and educational transfers from parents to children and by imitative behaviour. Imitation is of particular interest, since it suggests...

We model the correlations of brothers' earnings isolating the effect of fathers' earnings from additional residual influences shared between brothers. We separate the two effects by analysing sibling correlations and intergenerational correlations jointly within a unified framework. Our...

We weave together care-giving, gender, and migration. We hypothesize that daughters who are mothers have a stronger incentive than sons who are fathers to demonstrate to their children the appropriate way of caring for one's parents. The reason underlying this hypothesis is that women on average...

Die Arbeit identifiziert zunächst geschlechtsspezifische Produktionsmuster. Durch die Kombination von Zeitverwendungsdaten mit Input-Output-Tabellen und Materialbilanzen lassen sich die branchenbezogenen Outputs in Stunden und CO2 Emissionen sowie der Beitrag von Frauen und Männern zum...

Intro -- FrontMatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Changing World of Work and Workers -- 3 Origin and Use of Generational Theories -- 4 Review of the Generational Literature -- 5 Alternative Perspectives for Research -- 6 Workforce Management in a New Era...

This book examines fertility patterns of post-war labor migrants and their descendants in Germany. It includes an introduction to the post-war migration history of Germany and a thorough review of the international literature on fertility of migrants and cultural sub-groups. The author uses data...