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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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Educational Attainment and Family Gaps in Women's Wages: Evidence from Five Industrialized Countries

Todd, Erin L. - 2001

This paper employs Luxembourg Income Study data for women in five industrialized countries to answer the following questions: Do family gaps in women's wage vary across levels of education? Does educational attainment help to 'insure' a woman against child wage penalties? Cross-national analysis...

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The Effects of Children on Household Income Packages: A Cross-National Analysis

Sullivan, Dennis Hal; Todd, Erin L. - 2001

This paper presents stylized facts about the effect of children on household disposable income and its components (the 'income package') in nine OECD countries, employing data from the Luxembourg Income Study database. We find that cross-national differences in the impact of children on...

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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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