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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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Income distribution, weekly hours of work, and time for child rearing: The US experience in a cross-national context

Burtless, Gary; Gornick, Janet; Smeeding, Timothy M. - 2008

part of the U.S. distribution derive an important advantage from devoting so much of their time to paid employment: They …

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Sliding into poverty? Cross-national patterns of income source change and income decay in old age

Williamson, James; Smeeding, Timothy M. - 2004

In this article we examine the change in the mix of income and benefits that older adults receive as they age, with a focus on older women. Our study is a crossnational comparison of five OECD countries using the Luxemburg Income Study database. We investigate the change of private income and...

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Public policy and economic inequality: The United States in comparative perspective

Smeeding, Timothy M. - 2004

This article compares recent economic inequality in industrialized nations, largely those belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This research finds the United States has the highest overall level of inequality of any rich OECD nation in the mid-1990s. It...

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Income poverty and income support for minority and immigrant children in rich countries

Smeeding, Timothy M.; Robson, Karen; Wing, Coady; … - 2009

The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) and the databases underlying the European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) allow estimates of the extent to which immigrant and nonimmigrant children are poor across a wide range of rich nations. These data also allow estimates of the effects...

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Poverty and income maintenance in old age: A cross-national view of low income older women

Smeeding, Timothy M.; Sandstrom, Susanna - 2005

Great strides have been made in reducing poverty amongst the elderly in most rich countries over the past forty years. But pensioner poverty has not been eradicated, especially in the English-speaking nations. Poverty rates amongst older women are much higher than those for older men and much...

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Government programs and social outcomes: The United States in comparative perspective

Smeeding, Timothy M. - 2005

While all nations value low poverty, high levels of economic self-reliance, and equality of opportunity for younger persons, they differ dramatically in the extent to which they reach these goals. Most nations have remarkable similarities in the sources of social concern within each nation -...

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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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United States Poverty in a Cross-National Context

Smeeding, Timothy M.; Rainwater, Lee; Burtless, Gary - 2000

In this paper we use cross-national comparisons made possible by the LIS to examine America's experience in maintaining a low poverty rate. We compare the effectiveness of United States antipoverty policies to that of similar polices elsewhere in the industrialized world. If lessons can be...

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