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.e. by differing probabilities of any employment? Across OECD countries there are large differences in the average level and … employment. The participation level is particularly important for inequality differences and there is persuasive evidence that … country attitudes to paid employment, particularly for women, differ significantly. This paper uses Luxembourg Income Study …
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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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This paper begins by asking how poverty in affluent countries should be measured, before examining recent evidence on poverty intensity and its social significance. Section 1 advocates use of the Sen-Shorrocks-Thon index of poverty intensity and introduces the 'Poverty Box' as a summary...
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Canada was very late in establishing a comprehensive retirement security system - lagging roughly thirty five years after the US built its Social Security system and about eighty years after Bismark first established a state funded pension system in Germany. As a consequence, the reduction in...
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1980 to 2000, average working hours per adult (ages 15-64) rose by 234 hours in the USA to 1476 while falling by 170 hours … well-being. Recently Bell and Freeman (2000) have argued that greater inequality in the USA provides the incentive that … participation. [For example, the paid working hours of women in the USA have risen significantly, while German men aged 55 to 64 …
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explained by differing probabilities of paid employment?' Luxembourg Income Study data on the USA, UK, Canada, Germany, France … persuasive evidence that attitudes to paid employment, particularly for women, differ significantly. This paper therefore asks …) female, and total, employment rate. In every case, measured trans-Atlantic differences in the inequality of money income …
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