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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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Income inequality over the later-life course: A comparative analysis of seven OECD countries

Brown, Robert L.; Prus, Steven G. - 2006

This paper examines income inequality over stages of the later-life course (age 45 and older) and systems that can be used to mitigate this inequality. Two hypotheses are tested: Levels of income inequality decline during old age because public benefits are more equally distributed than work...

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Social transfers and income inequality in old-age: A multi-national perspective?

Brown, Robert L.; Prus, Steven G. - 2003

This paper examines variation in old-age income inequality between industrialized nations with modern welfare systems. The analysis of income inequality across countries with different retirement income systems provides a perspective on public pension policy choices and designs and their...

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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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