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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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The temporal welfare state: A crossnational comparison

Rice, James Mahmud; Goodin, Robert E.; Parpo, Antti - 2006

as one pleases, outside the necessities of everyday life. Using surveys from five countries (the USA, Australia, Germany …

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Growing up in North America: Child well-being in Canada, the United States, and México

2006

The premise of the Children in North America Project lies in the kind of world we live in today, an increasingly interdependent, complex, and connected world. It is a small world where school children living in a desert state or a prairie province know all about a tsunami because of images of...

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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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Real standards of living and public support for children: A cross-national comparison

Smeeding, Timothy - 2002

Most cross-country comparisons of living standards focus on real Purchasing Power Parities (PPP) adjusted Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per person. These measures provide no variance in living standards within the nation, nor do they account for the amount of real incomes that families actually...

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Comparing welfare regime changes: Living standards and the unequal life chances of different birth cohorts

Chauvel, Louis - 2008

The cohort sustainability of welfare regimes is of central importance to most long-term analyses of welfare state reforms (see for example: Esping-Andersen et al., 2002). A complement to these analyses shows that changes in intra versus inter cohort inequalities are major outcomes or...

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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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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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