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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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How Much does Work Matter for Inequality? Time, Money and Inequality in International Perspective

Osberg, Lars - 2002

.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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Mechanisms of poverty alleviation

Nelson, Kenneth - 2004

Substantial cross-national differences in poverty alleviation are well documented, but theextent to which different parts of the social transfer system account for this variation is still relatively unexamined. This study analyses the redistributive effects of specific social policy institutions...

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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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Income poverty and income support for minority and immigrant children in rich countries

Smeeding, Timothy M.; Robson, Karen; Wing, Coady; … - 2009

The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) and the databases underlying the European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) allow estimates of the extent to which immigrant and nonimmigrant children are poor across a wide range of rich nations. These data also allow estimates of the effects...

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Female income differentials and social benefits: A four country comparison

Sierminska, Eva - 2004

inequality in wages and employment. This study examines family gaps in the economic well-being of households, and analyzes the …

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Women's part-time wage penalties across countries

Bardasi, Elena; Gornick, Janet C. - 2007

This paper investigates wage gaps between part- and full-time women workers in six OECD countries in the mid-1990s. Using comparable micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), for Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the UK, and the US, the paper first assesses crossnational variation in the...

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Poverty and inequality: Greece and Mediterranean Europe in comparative perspective

Munzi, Teresa; Smeeding, Timothy - 2005

Social vulnerability due to insufficient income and earnings may come from many sources, both demographic and economic, in a globalizing world. This paper examines the problems of population aging, low wages, growing inequality, and insufficient social spending. Vulnerable groups such as...

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Government programs and social outcomes: The United States in comparative perspective

Smeeding, Timothy M. - 2005

While all nations value low poverty, high levels of economic self-reliance, and equality of opportunity for younger persons, they differ dramatically in the extent to which they reach these goals. Most nations have remarkable similarities in the sources of social concern within each nation -...

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Fertility and the influence of women's industries

Hülskamp, Nicola - 2006

employment and fertility of men, researchers believed that women with higher wages had fewer children than women with lower wages … lower wages. Therefore, it becomes more and more apparent that the correlation between women's fertility and employment is … and return to their work place sooner than other women. Studies finding a positive correlation between women's employment …

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