Population surveys around the world face the problem of declining cooperation and participation rates of respondents. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total household disposable income; there is also a further case of missingness confronting household panel surveys that potentially biases results. The approach...
Markus M. Grabka, Joachim R. Frick, Olaf Groh-Samberg
Guildford, Großbritannien,
29.03.2010
- 31.03.2010| Royal Economic Society 2010 Conference: RES 2010
. - This paper investigates the determinants of intra-household time allocation in post-war Rwanda. A decade after the 1994 genocide, Rwanda still bears the demographic impact of the war, in which at least 800,000 people died and the majority of casualties were adult males. The paper explores two unique features: exogenous variation in household types and large variation in regional cohort...
Kati Schindler
Butare, Ruanda,
26.03.2010
| Research Seminar at the National University of Rwanda
Christian Wey, Sven Heitzler
Toulouse, Frankreich,
25.03.2010
- 26.03.2010| Sixth Conference on "Regulation, Competition and Universal Service in the Postal Sector"
This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a recently developed concept of ethnic identity: the ethnosizer. To shed further light on the native-migrant differences in economic outcomes, we investigate the labor market reintegration,...
Amelie Constant, Martin Kahanec, Ulf Rinne, Klaus F. Zimmermann
Mannheim,
25.03.2010
- 27.03.2010| Flexibility in Heterogeneous Labour Markets: International Workshop ZEW Mannheim