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Failure to launch: Cross-national trends in the transition to economic independence

Bell, Lisa; Burtless, Gary; Gornick, Janet; Smeeding, … - 2007

, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The paper compares trends in the household living arrangements, employment … this general pattern. Between the mid-1980s and 2000 employment rates improved among young Americans in their late 20s and … early 30s, and earnings levels either remained stable or increased modestly. The stability of U.S. employment levels helped …

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Trends in the Internationalisation of R&D - the German Perspective

Beise, Marian; Belitz, Heike - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 67 (1998) 2, pp. 67-85

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Sozio-ökonomische Entwicklungseffekte der Internationalisierung der Produktion: die internationale Textilbranche und das Fallbeispiel der Bundesrepublik und Tschechien

Obst, Stefan - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 67 (1998) 3, pp. 235-253

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Tax progression: International and intertemporal comparisons using LIS data

Pogorelskiy, Kirill; Seidl, Christian; Traub, Stefan - 2010

Based on the earlier work of one of the authors, this paper develops a unified methodology to compare tax progression for dominance relations under different income distributions. We address it as uniform tax progression for different income distributions and present the respective approach for...

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The structure of income in elderly households and relative poverty rates in Japan from the viewpoint of international comparisons

Murozumi, Masako; Shikata, Masato - 2008

We examine the poverty rates and the income configurations among Japan and the LIS countries. The LIS countries are Germany, Italy, the UK, Denmark, the US, and Taiwan. We divide household including elderly into five types: living alone, couples only, living with their married children, living...

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Income distribution, weekly hours of work, and time for child rearing: The US experience in a cross-national context

Burtless, Gary; Gornick, Janet; Smeeding, Timothy M. - 2008

part of the U.S. distribution derive an important advantage from devoting so much of their time to paid employment: They …

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Sliding into poverty? Cross-national patterns of income source change and income decay in old age

Williamson, James; Smeeding, Timothy M. - 2004

In this article we examine the change in the mix of income and benefits that older adults receive as they age, with a focus on older women. Our study is a crossnational comparison of five OECD countries using the Luxemburg Income Study database. We investigate the change of private income and...

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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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Equalizing income versus equalizing opportunity: A comparison of the United States and Germany

Almås, Ingvild - 2008

Germany has lower posttax income inequality than the United States and hence is doing better according to a strict egalitarian fairness ideal. On the other hand, the United States is doing better than Germany according to a libertarian fairness ideal, which states that people should be held...

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Public policy and economic inequality: The United States in comparative perspective

Smeeding, Timothy M. - 2004

This article compares recent economic inequality in industrialized nations, largely those belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This research finds the United States has the highest overall level of inequality of any rich OECD nation in the mid-1990s. It...

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