We use the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) to analyse whether employed and unemployed job seekers are substitutes by comparing their individual characteristics and past (un)employment and job histories. Since the BHPS does not directly collect information on job search activities of...

Unified growth theory predicts that the timing of the fertility transition is a key determinant of contemporary comparative development, as it marks the onset of the take-off to sustained growth. Neoclassical growth theory presupposes a take-off, and explains comparative development by...

[...] In the final analysis the RTR is potentially a sound and useful measure for providing an indication of the relative effects of border protection. If offers interesting dynamic possibilities should the measure be updated annually, although the resource cost involved in widening the scope of...

In continental Europe, labour shares in national income have exhibited considerable variation since 1970. Empirical and theoretical research suggests that the evolution of labour markets and labour market imperfections can, in part, explain this phenomenon. The author analyzes the role of...

Zum 1. Mai 2011 hat auch Deutschland seine Grenzen für Arbeitnehmer aus den mittel- und osteuropäischen EU-Beitrittsländern geöffnet. Um die erwartete Flut; zuwandernder Arbeitskräfte einzudämmen, wird die Einführung eines Mindestlohns in den betroffenen Branchen gefordert. Die...

With the development of household budget systems and with regard to the requirements of the European Union with new EU-SILC approaches, the cumulation of cross-section surveys to an integrated information system is recently discussed and required. In particular the reconstruction of household...

Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States. We test the hypothesis of parentchild time as a...