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Cross-national patterns in individual and household employment and work hours by gender and parenthood

Misra, Joya; Budig, Michelle; Böckmann, Irene - 2010

We distinguish between overall employment rates and full-time employment rates among men and women, and examine total … household employment hours for heterosexually partnered men and women, as well as women's share in total household employment … hours, to investigate how gender, parenthood, and partner's employment are related to individual's employment patterns. We …

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The context of relative equality: Comparing educational gradients in the gendered division of labor in three liberal markets

Cooke, Lynn Prince; Sayer, Liana C. - 2012

We compare the educational gradient in employment, housework and child care in Australia, the United Kingdom and the … narrows educational differences across women as well as men, and in turn the gender differences in employment hours at each …

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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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Eugenics of inequality: UK and US fatherhood premia across the earnings distribution, 1974-2010

Cooke, Lynn Prince - 2014

Fathers in many countries enjoy a wage premium as compared with childless men, but parenthood does not benefit all men equally. Income inequality among men has increased markedly since the 1970s, suggesting that differences among fathers have grown over time. Five waves of LIS data and...

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Fatherhood, intra-household employment dynamics, and men's earnings in a cross-national perspective

Boeckmann, Irene; Budig, Michelle - 2013

Studies find fatherhood earnings premiums in several European countries and the United States. Yet little research investigates how intra-household dynamics shape the size of the fatherhood premium cross-nationally. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study we examine how the division of labor...

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Immigrants and the Distribution of Income: National and International Comparisons

Saunders, Peter - 1994

This paper explores the income distribution position of immigrants and nonimmigrants using three different approaches. The results indicate that there is virtually no difference between the distributional profiles of immigrant and nonimmigrant families in Australia. However, when a similar...

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How Do the Elderly in Taiwan Fare Cross-Nationally? Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Project

Smeeding, Timothy Michael; Saunders, Peter - 1998

This paper uses microdata from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) to estimate and compare four dimensions of the well-being of the aged in Taiwan and eight other countries - the United States, Japan, Australia, Poland, Finland, Germany, Hungary and Canada. Together, these nine countries cover a...

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Gender Agency at the Intersection of State, Market and Family: Changes in Fertility and Maternal Labor Supply in Eight Countries

Cooke, Lynn Prince - 2001

Current debates on the welfare state entail two intertwined questions. First, does a nation have sufficient active labor force participation to maintain the benefits for non-participants? Second, do social provisions exacerbate or attenuate class, ethnic and other distinctions within society? As...

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