"Pinder examines the interrelatedness of globalization and workfare and how this interrelatedness is impacting black single mother welfare recipients. The book builds on these insights and seeks to illuminate a crucial but largely overlooked aspect of the negative impact of workfare on black...

"Addresses the issue of household food consumption, its relation to gender and to food policy in Indonesia. Using econometric analyses of the Indonesian Family Life Survey, the study reveals that food expenditure patterns, particularly those of the poor households, warrant food policy attention....

This paper provides a clear and transparent setting to study the effect of additional pension benefits on women's retirement decision. Using administrative pension insurance records from Germany, I examine the impact of a pension subsidy program to low pay workers, implemented in 1992. The...

Die beschäftigungspolitischen Wirkungen einer Arbeitszeitverkürzung sind in der Fachliteratur intensiv diskutiert worden. Allerdings bleibt die theoretische Frage offen, ob eine Arbeitszeitverkürzung eine Steigerung der mit positiven Externalitäten verbundenen Frauenerwerbsbeteiligung mit...