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overview of poverty among all households and among those with children, presenting multiple poverty measures (relative and …We draw on LIS' various resources to sketch a portrait of child poverty in upper-income countries. We first summarize … past LIS-based scholarship on child poverty, highlighting studies that seek to explain cross-national variation in child …
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of gender equality, the U.S. ranks above average in paid working time among dual-earner couples with no children, but …
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configurations and the employment patterns of women with children. …
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This paper explores the influence of government employment on the gender gap in earnings in seven countries, using data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS). The size of the public sector and women's concentration in government employment varies widely across industrialized countries. We...
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This paper assesses women's poverty in 26 diverse LIS countries - five Anglophone countries, six Continental European … as post-transfer income, and when we consider absolute as well as relative poverty? (3) How do women's poverty rates …-national portrait of gender and poverty shift when we consider person-level income as well as household-level income? We conclude that …
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