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What is the Best Mix of Policies for Canada's Children?: An International Comparison of Policies and Outcomes for Young Children

Phipps, Shelley - 1999

house, whose parents may or may not find paid employment. The characteristics of the unemployment insurance program will be …

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Examining the Impact on Married Couples' Earnings Distributions of Standardizing for Difference in Hours Worked

Kilfoil, Mary - 1999

This paper examines the relationship between the distribution of average annual household pre-tax earnings and average annual household hours of market work for married couple households. The point of departure in this paper is the treatment of the variation in annual hours worked either over...

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Modern Human Capital Analysis: Estimation of US, Canada and Italy Earning Functions

DiBartolo, Annamaria - 1999

The aim of this paper is not to supply a synthesis of the Chicago School human capital theory, but rather to define and analyze the earnings functions and their relations with the human capital concept. The earnings functions are an easy and flexible tool, for the analysis of the investments in...

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Extensions of a Measure of Polarization with an Application to the Income Distribution of Five OECD Countries

Esteban, Joan; Gradín, Carlos; Ray, Debraj - 1999

We introduce an extension of the Esteban and Ray [Econometrica, 1994] measure of polarization that can be applied to density functions. As a by-product we also derive the Wolfson [AER, 1994] measure as a special case. This derivation has the virtue of casting both measures in the context of a...

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The Family Gap in Pay: Evidence from Seven Industrialized Countries

Harkness, Susan; Waldfogel, Jane - 1999

In this paper we use microdata on employment and earnings from a variety of industrialized countries to investigate the … that there is a good deal of variation across our sample countries in the effects of children on women's employment. We … family gap in pay across countries is not primarily due to differential selection into employment or to differences in wage …

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Long Run Trends in Economic Inequality in Five Countries - A Birth Cohort View

Osberg, Lars - 2000

This paper examines the level and distribution of equivalent after tax, after transfer money income in Canada, the USA … countries studied differ in the trends observed in aggregate income, poverty, polarization and income inequality. In the USA and … gains of the top decile of the UK and the USA had been transferred to the bottom decile, poverty in both countries in 1994 …

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Women and Part-Time Employment: Workers' 'Choices' and Wage Penalties in Five Industrialized Countries

Bardasi, Elena; Gornick, Janet C. - 2000

consequences of part-time employment among women across five industrialized countries - Canada, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom …

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Children in Large Families: Disadvantaged or Just Different?

Redmond, Gerry - 2000

' employment status is taken into account. The paper concludes by suggesting that there is a difference between help for families …

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On the Distribution of Income in Five Countries

DeNardi, Mariacristina; Ren, Liqian; Wei, Chao - 2000

The goal of this study is to look at different countries, study their redistribution policies and discuss the effects of the redistribution/incentives tradeoff. Since we want to look at countries that display different degrees of government intervention, we pick countries belonging to both...

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Income Distributions: A Comparison across Countries and Time

Bandourian, Ripsy - 2000

A number of distributions have been used to describe income distribution. This paper estimates eleven distributions (GB, GB1, GB2, B, B1, B2, GG, BR3, BR12, GA, and LN) using data from eight countries (Australia, Canada, Israel, Norway, Russia, Taiwan, United Kingdom, and the United States) for...

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