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Left-behind vs. unequal places : interpersonal inequality, economic decline, and the rise of populism in the US and Europe

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Terrero-Dávila, Javier; Lee, Neil - 2023

interpersonal inequality, and the rise of far-right populism in Europe and in the US. The analysis -conducted at small region level … for Europe and county level for the US- shows that there are both similarities and differences in the factors connected to … minorities shunned populism. In Europe, the most significant factor behind the rise of far-right populism is economic decline …

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Perceived social position and income inequality : do they move together? : evidence from Europe and the United States

Ricci, Chiara Assunta - 2016

The match between perception and reality can depend on many different elements across societies over time, but subjective and objective dimensions are both relevant particularly in social class analysis. The aim of this paper is to investigate perceived social position and income inequality in...

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Government programs and social outcomes : the United States in comparative perspective

Smeeding, Timothy M. (contributor) - 2005

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Educational assortative mating as a determinant of changing household income inequality: A 22-country study

Boertien, Diederik; Permanyer, Iñaki - 2017

In a search for determinants of societal levels of income inequality, scholars have suggested that homogamy within marriages and cohabiting relationships is a potentially important driver of inequality. If resourceful persons form couples together, and individuals without resources partner each...

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The context of relative equality : comparing educational gradients in the gendered division of labor in three liberal markets

Cooke, Lynn P.; Sayer, Liana C. - 2012

We compare the educational gradient in employment, housework and child care in Australia, the United Kingdom and the 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...

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Slowing Women's Labor Force Participation : The Role of Income Inequality

Albanesi, Stefania; Prados, María José - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The entry of married women into the labor force and the rise in women's relative wages are amongst the most notable economic developments of the twentieth century. The growth in these indicators was particularly pronounced in the 1970s and 1980s, but it stalled since the early 1990s, especially...

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Educational Inequality*

Blanden, Jo; Doepke, Matthias; Stuhler, Jan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic backgrounds, show how patterns of educational inequality vary across...

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Motherhood and women's earnings in Anglo-American, Continental European, and Nordic countries

Sigle-Rushton, Wendy; Waldfogel, Jane - 2006

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Informal transfers in comparisons of monetary welfare and its distribution

Cai, Yixia; Evans, Martin - 2017

The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data is expanding to cover "middle income" countries that supplement the large, existing sample of countries which are "high income" in the LIS Database. Developing countries tend to have social protection systems that are less formalized, and financial...

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Welfare regimes and structures of inequality : a comparative fuzzy set analysis of 23 countries

Pechmann, Philipp - 2011

Welfare states influence the social structure of societies as well as inequalities in various ways. The paper presented here discusses whether specific structures of inequality can be identified in different welfare regimes, i.e. whether specific population groups (elderly, unemployed, single...

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