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By-Laws and Social Relations : Shaping the Societal Behaviour

Nurudin, Suzei Mat; Mohd Zain, Dr. Zarina; Khalid, Nor … - 2022

Objective - Local governments in Malaysia are regulated under the Local Government Act 1976 and each has its power to enact by-laws under their respective administration area. By-law is a formulation of the law under the jurisdiction of local government in performing its duties and functions...

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The Socioeconomics of Consumption: Solutions to the Problems of Interest, Knowledge, and Identity

Cosgel, Metin - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2005

This paper is a review of the socio-economic literature on consumption. Considering consumption as a social activity, it examines how consumption solves the problems of interest, knowledge, and identity. It also discusses the main themes and important contributions in each category and offers...

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To Estimate An Equation Explaining The Determinants Of Dowry

Afzal, Sarwat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The focus of this study is to estimate an equation explaining the determinants of dowry. In this paper, we address a very common socio-economic problem for sub-continent, the problem of dowry. From a social planner's perspective, who wants to reduce overall dowry transfers, we consider the...

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Education, Aspirations and Life Satisfaction

Ferrante, Francesco - Dipartimento di Economia e Giurisprudenzia, Facoltà di … - 2009

The idea that expanding work and consumption opportunities always increases people’s wellbeing is well established in economics but finds no support in psychology. Instead, there is evidence in both economics and psychology that people’s life satisfaction depends on how experienced utility...

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Diaspora transferts et signal de richesse

Jellal, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper shows that social interactions can induce families of migrants to care about hierarchical social status because it serves as a signal device of non-observable income. Hence , a concern for social status induces theses families to engage in conspicuous consumption in order to signal...

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Why Are Fertility and Women?s Employment Rates So Low in Italy? : Lessons from France and the U.K.

Del Boca, Daniela; Pasqua, Silvia; Pronzato, Chiara - 2004

According to the agenda for employment set by the EU in 2000 for the following ten years, the target for female employment was set at 60 per cent for the year 2010. While Northern and most Continental countries have achieved this quantitative target, the Mediterranean countries are lagging...

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Exploring the impacts of public childcare on mothers and children in Italy: Does rationing play a role?

Brilli, Ylenia; Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara - 2011

This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children … second grade of primary school in 2008-09 in conjunction with data on public childcare availability. Public childcare … rationing in public childcare access and the functioning of the childcare market. Our estimates indicate that childcare …

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The effect of childcare on parental earnings trajectories

Krapf, Matthias; Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2020

We study the effect of childcare availability on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the … staggered opening od childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare … facilities in the year of birth of the first child reduces the child penalty. The availability of childcare increases maternal …

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Early Child Care and Child Outcomes: The Role of Grandparents

Del Boca, Daniela; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara D. - 2014

In this paper, we focus on the impact of early grandparents' care on child cognitive outcomes, in the short and medium term, using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (UK). Compared with children looked after in a formal care centre, children cared by grandparents (as well as parents) are...

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How do parents allocate time? : the effects of wages and income

Bloemen, Hans G. (contributor); … - 2008

simultaneously specifies three time-use choices - paid work, childcare, and housework - and wage and employment equations for each … changes in own wage. The own-wage elasticity of housework is negative while childcare does not react to changes in own wage …. Women's non-market time is independent of their husband's wage; but both housework and childcare of fathers react positively …

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