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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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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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Two worlds of retirement income: A comparative analysis of retirement-income outcomes using the Luxembourg Income Study

Lomax, Kevin; Gran, Brian - 2003

This paper examines whether retirement-income systems allow older individuals to enjoy socially acceptable income levels independent of paid work (decommodification) and the family (defamilialization). Little research has investigated the degree to which decommodification and defamilialization...

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Inequality decompositions: A reconciliation

Cowell, Frank A.; Fiorio, Carlo V. - 2009

We show how classic source-decomposition and subgroup-decomposition methods can be reconciled with regression methodology used in the recent literature. We also highlight some pitfalls that arise from uncritical use of the regression approach. The LIS database is used to compare the approaches...

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What is behind native-immigrant social income gaps?

Anastossova, Lubomira; Paligorova, Teodora - 2006

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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