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Failure to launch: Cross-national trends in the transition to economic independence

Bell, Lisa; Burtless, Gary; Gornick, Janet; Smeeding, … - 2007

, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The paper compares trends in the household living arrangements, employment … this general pattern. Between the mid-1980s and 2000 employment rates improved among young Americans in their late 20s and … early 30s, and earnings levels either remained stable or increased modestly. The stability of U.S. employment levels helped …

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Reproducing occupational inequality: Marriage, parenthood and the gender divide in occupations

Hook, Jennifer L.; Pettit, Becky - 2008

It is well established that class and gender predict occupational placement across advanced industrialized countries. In exploratory analyses the authors document a third dimension to occupational segregation associated with family responsibilities, and consider explanations for cross- national...

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The puzzle of egalitarianism: About the relationships between employment, wage inequality, social expenditures and poverty

Cantillon, Bea; Marx, Ive; Van den Bosch, Karel - 2002

as employment, low pay, social transfers and poverty. This paper presents basic empirical evidence on the validity of … (wage compression) and employment performance, or between employment performance and poverty. Instead we find a strong and …, the incidence of low wage employment and social expenditure are also strongly and (negatively) related. We examine these …

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Gender Differences in the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Employment, Unpaid Work and Well-Being in the EU

Nivakoski, Sanna; Mascherini, Massimiliano - In: Intereconomics 56 (2021) 5, pp. 254-260

Unpaid work carried out inside the home has increased in the pandemic, and evidence points to women's share in care responsibilities and domestic tasks remaining higher than those of men in the pandemic, continuing the gender divides of past decades.

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TTIP: Political and economic rationale and implications

Pelkmans, Jacques; Lee, Thea M.; Mustilli, Federica; … - In: Intereconomics 50 (2015) 6, pp. 312-343

economists debate whether or not there will actually be any noticeable impact on employment and GDP growth. This Forum, featuring …

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Keys to negotiating the transatlantic trade and investment partnership

Schott, Jeffrey J.; Cimino, Cathleen - In: Intereconomics 48 (2013) 4, pp. 263-264

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Income distribution, weekly hours of work, and time for child rearing: The US experience in a cross-national context

Burtless, Gary; Gornick, Janet; Smeeding, Timothy M. - 2008

part of the U.S. distribution derive an important advantage from devoting so much of their time to paid employment: They …

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Fast methods for jackknifing inequality indices

Karoly, Lynn A.; Schröder, Carsten - 2013

The jackknife is a resampling method that uses subsets of the original database by leaving out one observation at a time from the sample. The paper outlines a procedure to obtain jackknife estimates for several inequality indices with only a few passes through the data. The number of passes is...

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Sliding into poverty? Cross-national patterns of income source change and income decay in old age

Williamson, James; Smeeding, Timothy M. - 2004

In this article we examine the change in the mix of income and benefits that older adults receive as they age, with a focus on older women. Our study is a crossnational comparison of five OECD countries using the Luxemburg Income Study database. We investigate the change of private income and...

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Worlds of working poverty: Cross-national variation in the mechanisms that lead to poverty among workers

Crettaz, Eric; Bonoli, Giuliano - 2010

confirm this hypothesis and show that low-wage employment is a key factor, but, by far, not the only one and that family …

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