We use data from the 1996 wave of the European Community Household Panel to present and compare the weekly number of hours mothers of children less than 16 years of age reported looking after children in nine European countries in 1996. In addition, we explore to what extent cross-country differences in socio-demographic characteristics and parents' employment status contribute to differences in maternal ...
We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher poverty rates conditional on characteristics, ...
We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a good indicator of their lifetime socioeconomic attainment. By contrast with several US child outcome studies, we find that late-childhood income is a more important determinant of outcomes than early-childhood income, and income effects are not greater for poor households compared ...
Die Personallage an den beruflichen Schulen in Deutschland wird sich kurzfristig entspannen. Aktuelle Berechnungen des DIW Berlin zeigen, dass der Ersatzbedarf geringer ausfällt als bislang angenommen, hauptsächlich weil sich die Bedingungen, vorzeitig aus dem Schuldienst auszuscheiden, merklich verschlechtert haben. Im Jahre 1999 wurden darüber hinaus 5 800 neue Berufsschullehrer eingestellt. Dieser ...
