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Service was one of the main characteristics of the European Marriage Pattern in pre-industrial western Europe. During this stage of the life cycle adolescents could acquire the material assets and skills that were required to marry and start an independent household. Whilst in service, servants...
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Today the European welfare states are strongly challenged and it is heavily debated how much social security a society should provide and how much private insurance is possible. This article goes back to the origins of the German welfare state. In the 1830s, industrialists from the district of...
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Today the European welfare states are strongly challenged and it is heavily debated how much social security a society should provide and how much private insurance is possible. This article goes back to the origins of the German welfare state. In the 1830s, industrialists from the district of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015243922
In this paper two dynamic models of artist behavior and arts labor supply are developed. Both are based on household … is depicted as someone who is hired on the arts labor market and paid for her arts time. In the second model artist is … accumulation, the supply of the labor in the arts market appears as a resulting from an inter-temporal process of resources …
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In this paper two dynamic models of artist behavior and arts labor supply are developed. Both are based on household … is depicted as someone who is hired on the arts labor market and paid for her arts time. In the second model artist is … accumulation, the supply of the labor in the arts market appears as a resulting from an inter-temporal process of resources …
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In this paper two dynamic models of an artist’s behavior and arts labor supply have been developed. Both are based on a … here an artist is depicted as someone who is hired on the arts labor market and paid for his artistic time. In the second … this kind of the artist’s human capital accumulation, the supply of labor in the arts market appears as the result of an …
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In Modernization Theory, it is argued that both the socio-economic background and education level of labourers affect the job market. In this article, we analyse the effects of both factors on the job market of Piedmont, a region in the north-west of Italy, using a new dataset of job-offer...
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Until now there was little evidence of the influence of large governments on happiness and when it existed, it was … decrease happiness and life satisfaction in European countries. In some cases there is evidence of an inverted U …-shaped relationship between the Government burden and happiness, for which the negative relationship begin just before the median. This …
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To what extent is economic growth liable to improve people’s subjective well-being in the long run? Recent studies identified three possible answers: economic growth matters a great deal; economic growth does not matter at all; economic growth matters, but other things matter more. Each of...
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This paper uses the gap between the level of an economy’s well-being and that of a people’s well-being as a measure of the overall economic ill-being in a society. In particular, it argues that such disparity is measurable using objective measures of and subjective measures for inflation and...
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