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Income, familialism and women's economic independence
Alper, Kaitlin - 2019
This paper explores the dynamics of women's economic independence at the individual household level and its relationship to country-level income distributions. I posit a negative relationship between income and women's economic independence. Using detailed household-level data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029177
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Work and poverty in post-industrial democracies
Alper, Kaitlin; Huber, Evelyne; Stephens, John D. - 2019
This article explores the determinants of relative market income poverty and poverty reduction in advanced industrial … democracies; that is, pre-tax and transfer relative poverty and reduction in poverty rates due to the tax and transfer system …. Using data from twenty countries between 1969 and 2014, we show that the primary determinants of market income poverty are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009243