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The recent EU expansion raised fears of potential migration motivated by welfare receipt. In this paper we use comparable data from five countries - Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Norway and the U.S. - to ask whether immigrants benefit more from social support than natives. Looking at the European...
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This study examines how and to what extent a couple’s education is associated with married women’s employment and the …). Overall, Denmark and Norway show the highest level of married women’s employment and no motherhood penalty. Our findings … the United States and Italy. We also find significant variation in married women’s employment in East Asian countries …
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- increasing dispersion of individual wages and changes in men's and women's employment rates. Others relate to shifts in household … rising women's employment exerted a sizable equalising effect. However, changes in labour market factors, in particular …
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that single mothers are more prevalent when female wages are lower. Higher male earnings and employment opportunities in a …
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The continuous decline in the fertility rate has been witnessed since 1980 in Japan. Japan’s total fertility rate in 2005 is 1.32, which is far below the replacement rate, 2.08. One of the main reasons for declining the fertility rate is the delay in marriage or even shy away from marriage...
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Objective: To assess whether an indicator of structural racism - the legacy of slavery - impacts racial inequality in poverty among individuals within the same family structure. Background: Family structure is a dominant explanation for racial inequality in poverty. This overemphasis on an...
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analyzes how different measurement strategies affect women's employment rates by examining combinations of paid and unpaid …
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Although employment growth is propagated as being crucial to reduce poverty across OECD countries, the actual impact of … employment growth on poverty rates is still unclear. This study presents novel estimates of the impact of macro-level trends in … for disentangling the impact of increasing women's employment rates from other possible confounders driving poverty …
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