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Die Berücksichtigung von Kindern in den Sozialversicherungen: Reformvorschläge auf dem Prüfstand

Kochskämper, Susanna - In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 64 (2015) 3, pp. 287-302

Abstract How to treat families within the German pay-as-you-go financed social insurance systems - this question is repeatedly discussed. A closer look on the statutory pension scheme as well as the statutory health insurance and the care insurance scheme reveals indeed, that people without...

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International Trade and the Skill Structure of Wages and Employment in West Germany / Außenhandel und die Qualifikationsstruktur von Löhnen und Beschäftigung in Westdeutschland

Fitzenberger, Bernd - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 219 (1999) 1-2, pp. 67-89

Summary Building on a Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson framework with factor price rigidities, this paper provides an empirical analysis of the relationship between trade, technical progress, and the labor market in West Germany for the period from 1970 until 1990. The analysis builds on relative...

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Blood, Sweat, and Tears: The Rise and Decline of the East German Economy, 1949–1988 / Blut, Schweiß, Tränen: Aufstieg und Niedergang der ostdeutschen Wirtschaft, 1949–1988

Blum, Ulrich; Dudley, Leonard - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 220 (2000) 4, pp. 438-452

Summary The rise of the East-German economy in the 1950s and 1960s and its decline in the 1970s and 1980s is difficult to explain by neoclassical economics. However; the observed life cycle may be explained by the inclusion of concepts from old and new institutional economics and from functional...

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The Employment of Mothers – Recent Developments and their Determinants in East and West Germany

Hanel, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 232 (2012) 2, pp. 146-176

Summary We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences disappear over time, and whether there are...

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Parental leave within the broader employment trajectory

Zhelyazkova, Nevena; Ritschard, Gilbert - In: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 36 (2017) 7, pp. 607-627

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present an analysis of parental leave use and long-term employment trajectories of parents in Luxembourg based on anonymous administrative records. This is the first systematic analysis of parental leave take-up rates and return rates for Luxembourg using...

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Diverging family policies to promote children's well‐being in the UK and US: some relevant data from family research and intervention studies

Cowan, Philip; Cowan, Carolyn - In: Journal of Children's Services 3 (2008) 4, pp. 4-16

In response to what are perceived as the negative consequences for children of family change over the past century, governments in the UK and the US have devoted substantial funds to programmes to strengthen families, but the focus of intervention in the two countries has moved in opposite...

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Family life in the 21st century: the implications for parenting policy in the UK

Walker, Janet - In: Journal of Children's Services 3 (2008) 4, pp. 17-29

The ever‐increasing diversity in family forms has provoked concerns in the UK about the instability of family life in the 21st century and promoted a plethora of policy initiatives aimed at strengthening families and supporting parents. This article explores the changes and continuities in...

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Retrenchment and restructuring: family support and children's services reform under the coalition

Churchill, Harriet - In: Journal of Children's Services 8 (2013) 3, pp. 209-222

Purpose – With the UK Conservative-Liberal Democrat Government reaching its mid-term point, this paper examines its austerity measures and public expenditure reductions in family support and children's services, and its revisions of family support, family intervention, child poverty, child...

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Does Increased Abortion Lead to Lower Crime? Evaluating the Relationship between Crime, Abortion, and Fertility

Sen, Anindya - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 7 (2007) 1

fertility rates during the 1960s and 1970s is responsible for more than half of the decline in violent crime rates witnessed …

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Celebrating 150 Years of Analyzing Fertility Trends in Germany

Kendzia, Michael J.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 233 (2013) 3, pp. 406-422

prominently in the Journal. Fertility naturally plays an important role in population economics. However, the level of German … fertility has decreased significantly from the 1900s. The paper documents and analyzes the long-termdevelopment trends ….We identify three different explanatory approaches for the decline in fertility according to which the various articles of the …

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