This paper examines whether retirement-income systems allow older individuals to enjoy socially acceptable income … employ the Luxembourg Income Study to compare Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Sweden, and the United States. This study … retirement-income systems of Canada, France, Germany, and the United States, however, tend to be older than age 75. Some experts …

This paper uses micro-census income data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) to measure the current and future … between income obtained from households' own saving and labor earnings, on the one hand, and the part financed with unfunded … transfers, on the other. The burden of unfunded transfers is defined as the tax on factor income that is needed to pay for such …

policies are related to households' relative incomes, taking into account cross-national and temporal differences in income … distributions. At the same time, we consider how two of the central factors that may be driving income inequality at the individual … or household level - parental educational level and family structure - may be related to a household's relative income …

United States using recent LIS and Multinational Time Use data. All three countries have above-average aggregate income … inequality, but it is least in Australia and greatest in the United States. The greater aggregate income equality in Australia …. The UK and US aggregate income inequality allows highly-educated, particularly US women to reduce their housework time …

quintiles of the income distribution. This allows a comparison of the level in human development of the poor with the level of …. (2008) to a sample of 21 low and middle income countries and 11 industrialized countries. In particular the inclusion of the … HDI of the richest quintile in many middle income countries. We also find, however, a strong overall negative correlation …

In a search for determinants of societal levels of income inequality, scholars have suggested that homogamy within … unlikely to have contributed to changes in income inequality. This finding is based on counterfactual simulations performed for … 21 European countries and the United States using data from the Luxembourg Income Studies. In a second stage of the …

The term 'family gap' refers to differences in income between households with children and households without children … far less than their counterparts in other nations. Parents in Anglophone nations receive less income from social transfer …

children and childless families. Families with children, regardless of having one or two parent, had very high rates of poverty …