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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 …

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The age profile of income and the burden of unfunded transfers in four countries: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study

Burtless, Gary - 2004

This paper uses micro-census income data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) to measure the current and future burden of financing public transfers, especially benefits supporting the aged and near-aged. The analysis distinguishes between income obtained from households' own saving and labor...

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Changing Inequality in Five Countries: The Role of Markets, Transfers and Taxes

Jäntti, Markus - 1993

Using LIS data the author explores the possibility that markets, the public sector, or demographic shifts affect the changing distribution of income among families in five industrialized countries in the 1980s.

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Inequality in Five Countries in the 1980 s: The Role of Demographic Shifts, Markets and Government Policies

Jäntti, Markus - 1996

Using LIS data, Jäntti examines levels and trends in income inequality among families in five industrialized countries, namely Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States, exploring the possibility that markets, the public sector or demographic shifts would...

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