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Estimating labour supply elasticities based on cross-country micro data: A bridge between micro and macro estimates?

Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka; Selin, Håkan - 2013

We utilise repeated cross sections of micro data from several countries, available from the Luxembourg Income Study, LIS, to estimate labour supply elasticities, both at the intensive and extensive margin. The benefit of the data is that it spans over four decades and includes a large number of...

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Tax progression: International and intertemporal comparisons using LIS data

Pogorelskiy, Kirill; Seidl, Christian; Traub, Stefan - 2010

Based on the earlier work of one of the authors, this paper develops a unified methodology to compare tax progression for dominance relations under different income distributions. We address it as uniform tax progression for different income distributions and present the respective approach for...

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The structure of income in elderly households and relative poverty rates in Japan from the viewpoint of international comparisons

Murozumi, Masako; Shikata, Masato - 2008

Germany, Italy, the UK, Denmark, the US, and Taiwan. We divide household including elderly into five types: living alone …

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Equalizing income versus equalizing opportunity: A comparison of the United States and Germany

Almås, Ingvild - 2008

Germany has lower posttax income inequality than the United States and hence is doing better according to a strict … egalitarian fairness ideal. On the other hand, the United States is doing better than Germany according to a libertarian fairness … Germany for all levels of responsibility sensitivity. If we, however, demand compensation for the residual, Germany is fairer …

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Failure to launch: Cross-national trends in the transition to economic independence

Bell, Lisa; Burtless, Gary; Gornick, Janet; Smeeding, … - 2007

We analyze trends in the age of economic independence in six industrialized countries, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Italy …

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The formation of minimum income protection

Nelson, Kenneth - 2004

decades in a comparative perspective. The countries included in the study are Canada, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and … vulnerable to cutbacks, particularly in Germany and Sweden. Although the curtailments in means-tested provisions in recent years … greatest in Sweden and the United Kingdom, followed by Germany, Canada and the United States. …

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Is mothers' employment an effective means to fight family poverty? Empirical evidence from seven European countries

Büchel, Felix; Mertens, Antje; Orsini, Kristian - 2003

European countries with contrasting family policies: the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, and Finland …

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Families at the margins of the welfare state: A comparative study on the prevalence of poverty among families receiving social assistance

Kuivalainen, Susan - 2005

The aim is to assess the prevalence of poverty among families receiving social assistance. We will examine the incidence of poverty among the recipients in relation to the general poverty profile. To answer these questions, the adequacy and poverty reduction effectiveness of social assistance...

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Gender, household and individual income in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the USA and the UK

Rake, Katherine; Daly, Mary - 2002

This paper examines gender differentials in the resources of households and individuals across seven welfare states. In its first part, it asks whether female-headed households can secure a living income without recourse to either the state or the income of a male partner. It then steps inside...

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Raising fertility: Lessons for Germany from cross-country comparisions?

Duensing, Martin - 2006

This paper aims at identifying the conditions which drive successful family policy. Therefore, it is necessary to know the economic and sociodemographic situation of families which is investigated in eight OECD countries. Special attention is drawn to income, education and labor supply of the...

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