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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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Poor people in rich nations: The United States in comparative perspective

Smeeding, Timothy - 2005

Most examinations of United States domestic antipoverty policy are inherently parochial, for they are based on the experiences of only our nation in isolation from the others. However, cross-national comparisons can also teach lessons about antipoverty policy. While all nations value low...

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Inequality decompositions: A reconciliation

Cowell, Frank A.; Fiorio, Carlo V. - 2009

We show how classic source-decomposition and subgroup-decomposition methods can be reconciled with regression methodology used in the recent literature. We also highlight some pitfalls that arise from uncritical use of the regression approach. The LIS database is used to compare the approaches...

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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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Reconsidering the divergence between elderly, child and overall poverty

Brady, David - 2004

participation reduces all three, manufacturing employment, economic performance and demographic variables only influence one or two …

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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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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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