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Roadblocks on the Road to Grandma's House: Fertility Consequences of Delayed Retirement

Battistin, Erich; De Nadai, Michele; Padula, Mario - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper investigates the role of childcare provided by grandparents for the fertility decisions of their offspring …-bearing years increases by about five percent the number of children. We show that the fertility effects of delayed retirement are … lowest low fertility we conclude that pension reforms may have had unintended inter-generational effects. This conclusion is …

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Regional Unemployment and Industrial Restructuring in Poland

Newell, Andrew; Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

This paper studies regional unemployment inequality in Poland. We find that higher unemployment regions are those experiencing greater change in industrial structure. We also find high unemployment regions are those with higher inflow rates to unemployment rather than longer spells of...

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Regional Price Differences in Urban China 1986-2001: Estimation and Implication

Gong, Cathy Honge; Meng, Xin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Despite the intensive efforts made by economists to examine regional income inequality in China, limited attention has been paid to disentangle the contribution of regional price differentials. This paper examines regional price differential in urban China over the period 1986 to 2001. Spatial...

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China’s Lesser Known Migrants

Quheng, Deng; Gustafsson, Bjorn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In China hukou (the household registration system) imposes barriers on permanent migration from rural to urban areas. Using large surveys for 2002, we find that permanent migrants number about 100 million persons and constitute approximately 20 percent of all urban residents. Receiving a long...

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The Effect of Economic Crises on Nutritional Status: Evidence from Russia

Stillman, Steven; Thomas, Duncan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper uses data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to examine the relationship between nutritional status and both longer-run household resources and short-run fluctuations in household resources. We evaluate six measures of nutrition – gross energy intake, two...

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Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union

Brainerd, Elizabeth; Cutler, David M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many other countries of the former Soviet Union saw similar declines, and female life expectancy fell as well. Using cross-country and Russian household survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this...

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Rural People’s Perception of Poverty in China

Gustafsson, Bjorn; Yue, Ximing - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Subjective Poverty Line methodology is applied to rural China 2002 using a sample from 22 provinces. Respondents were asked two questions: one on amount of food necessary and another on amount of cash necessary for their households. The respondent’s perception of how much cash is needed varies...

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"I Wish I Had 100 Dollars a Month …" - The Intergenerational Transfer of Poverty in Mongolia

Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper aims to study the mechanisms of the intergenerational transfer of poverty: it considers household poverty as a risk factor for youth poverty. The study is based on a unique, nationally representative School-to-Work Transition survey carried out in 2006 in Mongolia, one of the 50...

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Showing Off to the New Neighbors? Income, Socioeconomic Status and Consumption Patterns of Internal Migrants

Danzer, Alexander M.; Dietz, Barbara; Gatskova, Ksenia; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived city dwellers to signal their social standing. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of...

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Can Economic Crises Be Good for Your Diet?

Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Gbakou, Monnet Benoit Patrick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

With fortuitously timed data – collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria – we revisit several hypotheses in the economics and nutritional literature related to the tendency of households to smooth their nutritional status over time. We explore the dietary...

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