Family, Household and Work
During the last decades the appearance of a family has changed substantially. Not long ago a typical family consisted of an employed man and a home-managing woman living together for their whole life times, and having one or more children, which pri
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John Ermisch Bengt-Arne Wickstrom Klaus F. Zimmermann
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Klaus F. Zimmermann Michael Vogler Editors
Family, Household and Work With 26 Figures and 106 Tables
Springer
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Preface
Demographic changes are now at the heart of the development of the economy. Within the area of Population Economics, the interest in household and family issues has been steadily rising in the last few years, which is reflected in the number of papers published by scientific journals, and in the programs of economics conferences. While this interest was fostered by rapid a
