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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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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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Causes and conditions of social vulnerability in comparative perspective: Asian evidence from the LIS dataset

Smeeding, Timothy - 2005

Social vulnerability due to insufficient income and earnings may come from many sources, both demographic and economic, in a globalizing world. This paper examines the problems of population aging, low wages, growing inequality, and insufficient social spending. Vulnerable groups such as...

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Real standards of living and public support for children: A cross-national comparison

Smeeding, Timothy - 2002

Most cross-country comparisons of living standards focus on real Purchasing Power Parities (PPP) adjusted Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per person. These measures provide no variance in living standards within the nation, nor do they account for the amount of real incomes that families actually...

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Ireland's income distribution in comparative perspective

Nolan, Brian; Smeeding, Timothy - 2004

inequality, though still falling well short of the level seen in the USA. In the end, Ireland's new-found prosperity provides a …

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Poverty and inequality: Greece and Mediterranean Europe in comparative perspective

Munzi, Teresa; Smeeding, Timothy - 2005

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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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Regional Poverty within the Rich Countries

Jesuit, David; Rainwater, Lee; Smeeding, Timothy - 2002

Using regional incomes as the reference group, disposable income poverty rates are computed for the two most recent waves of Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data available for the following countries: Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In...

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