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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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.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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Income inequality has risen sharply in the United States over the past generation, reaching levels not seen since before World War II. But while almost two-thirds of Americans agree with the statement that 'income differences in the United States are too large', policies aimed at reducing income...
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explained by differing probabilities of paid employment?' Luxembourg Income Study data on the USA, UK, Canada, Germany, France … persuasive evidence that attitudes to paid employment, particularly for women, differ significantly. This paper therefore asks …) female, and total, employment rate. In every case, measured trans-Atlantic differences in the inequality of money income …
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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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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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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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The purpose of this paper is to review recent data made available through the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) that include expenditures and asset valuations. The LIS data are augmented with comparable data from the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey. The surveys with expenditure data are reviewed in...
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inequality in wages and employment. This study examines family gaps in the economic well-being of households, and analyzes the …
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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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