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...

This paper assesses the impact on household labor supply of a Dual Income Tax reform in Germany. It relies on GMOD, a population-based tax-benefit microsimulation model, and uses flexible mixed logit simulation estimators.

Large parts of East German landscapes are formed by lignite mining activities. The mining pits destroy vast areas of the existing cultural landscapes. These areas have to be made re-accessible to society through extensive reclamation projects after mining has been finished. For an appraisal of...