[…] Tax Benefit). The model allows for imperfect information and subjective claim costs and is estimated using data from five years of the Family Resources Survey. We use the model to estimate the distribution of claim costs using the compensating variation principle and assess the impact of claim costs and information search costs on poverty measurement.

[…] 1975-76 and 1985) for comparing changes in the national accounts of the United States with the new continuous American Time Use Study. We first investigate the potential impact the diary designs on the recording of secondary activities in these studies. We also examine variations in the reporting of secondary activities across these studies. Finally, […]

[…] and the state. The configuration of these providers determines the economic outcome to a high degree, because the income sources a person can rely on have an impact on how serious and how long ranged these consequences are. I also consider the effects of different legal systems as another possible source of protection from […]

[…] from those who are poorly integrated? Integral to the analysis is the cross-national comparison of the relevance of institutional settings (labour market and social policy) and their impact on family formation. Thus we compare the continental conservative German system with the liberal welfare state of the UK. In order to account for differences in […]

The age at motherhood has increased in most European Countries in the past decades. The main aim of this paper is to assess the impact of women’s education and work experience on the timing of first birth across the European Union (EU). According to the literature – based on income maximisation framework (Gustafsson 2001, […]