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Income inequality and redistribution in post-industrial democracies: Demographic, economic, and political determinants

Huber, Evelyne; Stephens, John D. - 2013

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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Exactly how has income inequality changed? Patterns of distributional change in core societies

Alderson, Arthur S.; Beckfield, Jason; Nielsen, François - 2005

The recent resurgence of income inequality in some of the core societies has spawned a wide-ranging debate as to the culprits. Progress in this debate has been complicated by the fact that many of the theories that have been developed to account for the inequality upswing imply radically...

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The State and Poverty Alleviation in Advanced Capitalist Democracies

Moller, Stephanie; Bradley, David; Huber, Evelyne; … - 2001

We analyze the impact of the state on the incidence of poverty in the working-age population of 14 advanced capitalist democracies between 1970 and 1997 using an unbalanced panel design. We utilize poverty measures based on micro-level data from the Luxembourg Income Study in conjunction with...

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Single Motherhood, Employment, or Social Assistance: Why are U.S. Women Poorer than Women in Other Affluent Nations?

Christopher, Karen - 2001

disparity by examining the effect of single motherhood, employment, and social assistance on women's poverty. With cross …

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Welfare State Regimes and Mothers' Poverty

Christopher, Karen - 2001

Study, I show how tax and transfer systems and employment supports in nine Western nations affect the poverty rates of … extent in France, the Netherlands and U.K., the tax and transfer system, employment supports, or a combination of the two …

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