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Provision of Childcare Services: A Comparative Review of EU Member States

Plantenga, Janneke; Remery, Chantal - In: CESifo DICE Report 13 (2015) 1, pp. 20-24

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Provision of Childcare Facilities in the European Union – An Analysis of Member States´ Progress Towards Meeting the Barcelona Targets

Reiter, Sarah - In: CESifo DICE Report 13 (2015) 1, pp. 39-42

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Part-time work and Family Building in OECD Countries

Laudage, Sabine - In: CESifo DICE Report 13 (2015) 1, pp. 46-49

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Entrepreneurship among parents

Kolvereid, Lars - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 7 (2018) 9, pp. 1-14

The present study investigates the relationship between the number of children in the household and mothers and fathers … children in the household and the propensity of these non-entrepreneurs to become and remain business owners from 2005 to 2016 …. For both sexes, the results show a positive and linear relationship between the number of children at home and business …

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Parents’ Ambitions and Children’s Competitiveness

Khadjavi, Menusch; Nicklisch, Andreas - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 67 (2018), pp. 87-102

ambitions and preferences of their parents. Parents’ ambitions concerning their children’s success in professional life predict … their children’s competitiveness. In particular, children of highly ambitious parents tend to enter competition even if … incentivized field study with pre-school children. We assess the children’s willingness to compete and relate the inclinations to …

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Interpreting sheepskin effects of investment in schooling

Shabbir, Tayyeb; Ashraf, Javed - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 5 (2011) 2, pp. 202-215

In the last few years, significant amount of research has produced evidence in support of the signaling, credential or "sheepskin" effects in rates of return to schooling for studies of the developed as well as developing countries. An example of the former is the seminal empirical work by...

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Costs of globalization

Kayani, Farrukh Nawaz; Zhongxiu, Zhao; Shah, M. Tahir Ali; … - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 6 (2012) 2, pp. 372-381

Globalization has both costs and benefits. In this paper we would focus upon one of the damages of globalization to China. It is said that inward FDI replaces local domestic capabilities in import-substitution countries. In the case of China the Chinese domestic industries are lacking...

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Contribution of health to economic development: A survey and overview

Husain, Muhammad Jami - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010) 2010-14, pp. 1-52

understanding of both the processes and causal paths that underlie the intricate relationship between health and wealth (income … health does not have to wait for an improved economy; rather, measures to reduce the burden of disease, to give children … the traditional and emerging perspectives on the health-income relationship, this literature review presents a non …

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Inherent Inequality and the Extent of Redistribution in OECD Countries

Tuomala, Matti; Tanninen, Hannu - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 1, pp. 48-53

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How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills

Hille, Adrian; Schupp, Jürgen - In: Economics of Education Review 44 (2015), pp. 56-82

into playing music, we take into account detailed information on the child and its parents, which may determine both the …

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