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| Author: | Merz, J. Hanglberger, D. Rucha, R. |
| Title: | The timing of daily demand for goods and services - Microsimulation policy results of an aging society, increasing labour market flexibility, and extended public childcare in Germany |
| Journal: | Journal of Consumer Policy
2010 : JUN, VOL. 33:2, p. 119-141 |
| Index terms: | ageing flexible working hours |
| Freeterms: | consumer policy analysis public childcare support |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The study examines how the timing of daily demand for goods and services is affected by major changes in German society. The focus is on the shift in Germany's demographic structure with an ageing society, the deregulation and the further expansion in in flexibility of the labour market and the current policy of extending public childcare support. For each aspect and policy, actual timing of daily demand for good and services is described. respective societal and policy impacts are then quantified based on 37000 time-use diaries of the current German TIme Budget Survey of 2001-2002. |
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