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Unemployment versus inactivity: An analysis of the earnings and labor force status of prime age men in France, the UK, and the US at the end of the 20th century
Bi?áková, Alena - 2005
negative effect on the wage of the low-skilled at the bottom of the wage distribution. With lower returns from employment, the …. The findings provide evidence against the commonly used argument that wage flexibility improves the employment prospects …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335462
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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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Das Rentenmodell der katholischen Verbände: Studie im Auftrag des Ministeriums für Arbeit, Gesundheit und Soziales des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, der Katholischen Arbeitnehmer-Bew...
Werding, Martin; Hofmann, Herbert; Reinhard, Hans-Joachim - 2007
Die vorliegende Studie wurde im ifo Forschungsbereich "Sozialpolitik und Arbeitsmärkte" in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Sozialrecht, München, erstellt und im Februar 2007 abgeschlossen. Sie entstand im Auftrag des Ministeriums für Arbeit,...
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Kindergeld
Rainer, Helmut; Bauernschuster, Stefan; Danzer, Natalia; … - 2013
Im Rahmen der vom Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSFJ) und vom Bundesministerium der Finanzen (BMF) in Auftrag gegebenen Gesamtevaluation von zentralen ehe- und familienbezogenen Leistungen wurden in der vorliegenden Studie die Auswirkungen der familienpolitischen...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335339
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335344
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Fast methods for jackknifing inequality indices
Karoly, Lynn A.; Schröder, Carsten - 2013
The jackknife is a resampling method that uses subsets of the original database by leaving out one observation at a time from the sample. The paper outlines a procedure to obtain jackknife estimates for several inequality indices with only a few passes through the data. The number of passes is...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335361
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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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