This paper briefly reviews recent empirical studies on the economic behaviour of lone mothers concentrating on the duration of lone motherhood, on labour supply, and on the determinants of their welfare participation. We start out by sketching some stylised facts about lone-mother-families in...

The purpose of this study is to provide a broader, economic perspective on customer value management. By developing an efficiency-based concept of customer value we aim at contributing to the presently underrepresented research field of marketing economics. The customer value concept is utilized...

Zhang and Bartels (1998) show formallyhow DEA efficiency scores are affected by sample size. They demonstratethat comparing measures of structural inefficiency between samplesof different sizes leads to biased results. This note arguesthat this type of sample size bias has much wider...

[ger] Schätzung eines vollständigen Systems der Güternachfrage und des Arbeitsangebots für eine Stichprobe französischer Haushalte, . von Richard Blundell, François Laisney, Matthias Ruth.. . Um ein vollständiges Nachfragesystem zu erhalten, das mit dem Treffen von Entscheidungen uber den...