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The context of relative equality: Comparing educational gradients in the gendered division of labor in three liberal markets

Cooke, Lynn Prince; Sayer, Liana C. - 2012

We compare the educational gradient in employment, housework and child care in Australia, the United Kingdom and the … narrows educational differences across women as well as men, and in turn the gender differences in employment hours at each …

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Policy effects on class-gender employment intersections

Cooke, Lynn Prince - 2009

This project explored how the sociopolitical context maps current class-gender intersections in relative employment … employment equality becomes a moving target. …

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Eugenics of inequality: UK and US fatherhood premia across the earnings distribution, 1974-2010

Cooke, Lynn Prince - 2014

Fathers in many countries enjoy a wage premium as compared with childless men, but parenthood does not benefit all men equally. Income inequality among men has increased markedly since the 1970s, suggesting that differences among fathers have grown over time. Five waves of LIS data and...

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Income inequality and redistribution in post-industrial democracies: Demographic, economic, and political determinants

Huber, Evelyne; Stephens, John D. - 2013

density, deindustrialization, unemployment, employment levels, and education spending. The main determinants of redistribution … are (in order of magnitude) left government, family structure, welfare state generosity, unemployment, and employment …

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Gender Agency at the Intersection of State, Market and Family: Changes in Fertility and Maternal Labor Supply in Eight Countries

Cooke, Lynn Prince - 2001

Current debates on the welfare state entail two intertwined questions. First, does a nation have sufficient active labor force participation to maintain the benefits for non-participants? Second, do social provisions exacerbate or attenuate class, ethnic and other distinctions within society? As...

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The State and Poverty Alleviation in Advanced Capitalist Democracies

Moller, Stephanie; Bradley, David; Huber, Evelyne; … - 2001

We analyze the impact of the state on the incidence of poverty in the working-age population of 14 advanced capitalist democracies between 1970 and 1997 using an unbalanced panel design. We utilize poverty measures based on micro-level data from the Luxembourg Income Study in conjunction with...

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