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Einfluss der Familienform auf den Schulerfolg von Kindern nicht nachweisbar [Low Impact of Family Structure on Success in School]
Going Places: neighbourhood, ethnicity and social mobility
The welfare cost of means-testing: pensioner participation in income support
[…] levels of stigma and other claim costs and non-claimants tend to be those with high levels of claim cost. A further aim is to assess the potential impact of implicit claim costs on the measurement of poverty. Implicit costs are found to be moderate for most IS recipients, typically around £3-4 per week (or […]
Social participation: how does it vary with illness, caring and ethnic group?
[…] of ‘ethnic capital’ in the life chances of minority ethnic groups. I use the British Home Office Citizenship Survey 2001 for England and Wales to explore the impact on four aspects of lack of social engagement of long-term illness, caring for someone with such an illness, and ethnicity. Controlling for a range of characteristics […]
The impact of internal migration on married couples’ earnings in Britain, with a comparison to the United States
Do wages compensate for anticipated working time restrictions? Evidence from seasonal employment in Austria
[…] wage rate is negative in a pooled regression, controlling for individual and industry fixed effects as well as for the endogeneity of unemployment results in a positive impact. We find that the average wage differential for seasonal jobs is about 11% percent of the wage in a permanent job, and that a similar amount […]
Micro-simulating Child Poverty in Great Britain in 2010 and 2020
[…] demographic, economic and policy scenarios. It uses a static micro-simulation model, with projections of some key economic and demographic characteristics. It shows prospects for child poverty in Great Britain in 2010/11 and 2020/21 under current government policies, and quantifies the impact of possible tax and benefit changes that could be implemented by 2010 and 2020.
Socio-economic differences in postponement and recuperation of fertility in Italy: results from a multi-spell random effect model
[…] second and third birth is done jointly. The model allows for unobserved heterogeneity and we test to what extent the assumption about its functional form has any impact on the overall parameter estimates. An expected result is that women with high wages tend to delay the first birth: we expected this result because education […]
Statut résidentiel et durée de chômage: une comparaison microéconométrique entre la Grande-Bretagne et la France
[…] and British household behaviour. Home-ownership has a positive effect on unemployment duration in France but no significant effect is detected in Britain. However we find a positive impact of public renters on unemployment duration in Britain. These stylised facts seems to confirm the existence of a real spillover effect between labour market and housing […]