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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study explores how the duration of poverty and its determinants evolved in Germany between the early 1990s and the late 2000s. Shifts in the duration of poverty over time are captured with the application of a rolling window framework which...
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different sets of factors (demographics, income, labor market, inheritances, financial decision making in the partnership) that …, with inheritances and income being particularly relevant. Furthermore, we find that specific characteristics (e.g. self …-employment, no migration background, inheritances, high income) that decrease the wealth gap for women increase it for men. For men …
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The paper aims to analyse how income inequality affects social networks strength in fourteen European Countries. We … how total income inequality could be related to social network; secondly, we introduce the "clustered network" definition …, by decomposing total income inequality based on the education level. We test the existence of a pluralism linkage between …
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This paper exploits data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to re-examine the gender wage gap in Germany on the basis of inequality-adjusted measures of wage differentials which fully account for gender differences in pay distributions. The inequality-adjusted gender pay gap measures...
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The main aims of the present paper are to examine whether gender role attitudes mitigate or facilitate social cohesiveness of Luxembourg residents and to uncover whether this effect is moderated by gender. Social cohesiveness is measured by composite indicators: first two represent general...
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socio-demographic charac-teristics, social capital, values and beliefs, and health and income. Moreover, the positive … influence of Internet use is stronger for low income and young in-dividuals. These findings suggest that public policy aiming to …
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La présente recherche a pour objectif de montrer que la question de l’intégration ne concerne pas seulement les immigrés et leurs descendants, mais tous les individus d’une société, même ceux dépourvus de lien direct avec l’immigration. Cela revient à étudier la stratification...
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We investigate the relationship between social participation and the hours worked in the market. Social participation is the component of social capital that measures individuals’ engagement in groups, associations and non-governmental organizations. We provide a model of consumer choice where...
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This paper uses European Values Study (EVS) data from 1999 and 2008 to examine the evolution of gender role attitudes in Luxembourg. The paper focuses on three aspects of the attitudinal changes. First, it analyses whether the gender role beliefs measured by three scores (childcare, homemaking...
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To date, most of the literature on economic networks in West Africa has considered networks in a metaphorical way. The aim of this paper is to go one step further by showing how network analysis may be applied to the study of regional trade in West Africa. After a brief review of the literature,...
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