"All You Need is Love" - and What about Gender? Engendering Burton's Human Needs Theory

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Employment experience and first birth in Great Britain

This article examines the effect of employment experience on first birth risks in Great Britain. The data used is from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). A positive effect of employment experience on first birth risks is found, in accordance with pre-dictions from economic models of fertility timing. This effect did not differ greatly between educational groups, in contrast to what was expected. Positive effects were found for all educational groups. An especially strong increase in first birth risks was found across the first year of employment spells.United Kingdom, fertility determinants

Do imputed education histories provide satisfactory results in fertility analysis in the Western German context?

In many surveys, information on respondents’ education histories is restricted to the level and sometimes the date they attained their highest degree. We compare estimates of education effects on first birth transitions using imputed histories based on this rudimentary information with estimates drawing on complete histories, using the German Life History Study. We find that imputed histories produce relatively reliable estimates for most but not all education categories, especially when information on the date the highest degree was attained is available. We investigate possible explanations for these findings and indicate contexts in which biases may be stronger.event history analysis, fertility, first birth, Germany, imputation, imputed education histories

Eligibility for materniy leave and first birth timing in Great Britain

This paper examines the impact of maternity leave legislation on first birth timing in Great Britain. When maternity leave was introduced in Great Britain in 1976, the eligibility requirement for full-time employees was to have been working for the same employer for at least 2 years. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), this paper examines whether women postponed first birth in accordance with tenure requirements for maternity leave. Higher transition rates to first birth are found for those who had acquired enough employer tenure to qualify for maternity leave than for those who did not yet qualify. However, the causal role of maternity leave legislation for first birth timing is uncertain, since transition rates to first birth began to diverge by employer tenure even before 1976.

des <<f>STIMMT überHAUPT> net; Zu Dissensmarkierungen in Konfliktgesprächen: Argumentationsanalytische Perspektiven auf ein Thema des Fremdsprachenerwerbs

Desde una perspectiva pragmalingüística, y sobre la base de una metodología del análisis de la conversación y de la argumentación, se presentan en este artículo aperturas de conflictos, diferentes marcas de disentir de la mano de un corpus de conversaciones auténticas de conflicto entre madres y sus hijas jóvenes (Schwarze 2010). La aperturas de conflictos son relevantes ya que para una comunicación competente en el diálogo es esencial conocer el litigio. Este conocimiento permite consecuentemente una argumentación. Si el objetivo es enseñar a los aprendices un lengua alemana que se hable, además de una compresión de aquello que es adecuado en una conversación, es innegociable trabajar con manisfestaciones auténticas del alemán. Por último se presenta una propuesta de cómo integrar el tema en la clase de lengua.Im vorliegenden Aufsatz werden in pragma-linguistischer Perspektive sowie auf der Basis gesprächs- und argumentationsanalytischer Methodik Konflikteröffnungen, also verschiedene Formen der Markierung von Dissens, präsentiert, die in einem Korpus von authentischen Konfliktgesprächen zwischen Müttern und ihren jugendlichen Töchtern nachweisbar waren (Schwarze 2010). Konflikteröffnungen sind relevant, da für kommunikativ kompetentes Handeln im Gespräch das Wissen darüber, was der (Streit-)Fall ist, essenziell ist. Dieses Wissen erlaubt nachfolgend eine gute Argumentation. Wenn jedoch das Ziel ist, den Lernenden das Deutsch beizubringen, das auch tatsächlich gesprochen wird, sowie ein Verständnis dessen, was als angemessen gelten kann, dann wird es unabdingbar, mit Manifestationen authentischen gesprochenen Deutschs zu arbeiten. Abschließend wird ein Vorschlag unterbreitet, wie das Thema in den Sprachunterricht integriert werden kann

Industry Agglomerations and Regional Development in Hungary

In context with the Eastern enlargement of the European Union, this research deals with the effects of pre- and post-enlargement integration policies on industry concentration and regional development in Hungary. Economic processes are analysed empirically and by means of regression analyses with a spatial perspective and in the framework of the new economic geography over a time span of almost two decades. The results for the manufacturing industries and for regional specialization show which economic centres played a role for the economic development of the country over time. The roles which agglomerations and regional specialization can play are discussed with a view to the problems of cohesion in Hungary, the enlarged EU and future EU accession countries. The conclusions also take into account the current political and academic debate regarding European regional policy