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Women and Part-Time Employment: Workers' 'Choices' and Wage Penalties in Five Industrialized Countries

Bardasi, Elena; Gornick, Janet C. - 2000

consequences of part-time employment among women across five industrialized countries - Canada, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom … everywhere, ranging from 8-12% in Canada and Germany, to 15% in the UK, to as high as 22% in the US and Italy, meaning that part … in Germany do we find evidence of 'discrimination' against part-time workers. …

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Gender equality in earnings at work and at home

Sørensen, Annemette - 2001

countries are contrasted with Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s, and include some comparisons to …

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Unemployment Compensation Programs Effect on the Employment of Young Men: A Cross-National Comparison of Canadian, British and American Unemployment Policies

Heintze, Tess - 2002

This study compares the receipt rates of unemployment compensation of American young men (aged 18-25) with those from Canada and the United Kingdom. The results indicate that American young men are far less likely to receive compensation for their unemployment than are youth from the other two...

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Eugenics of inequality: UK and US fatherhood premia across the earnings distribution, 1974-2010

Cooke, Lynn Prince - 2014

Fathers in many countries enjoy a wage premium as compared with childless men, but parenthood does not benefit all men equally. Income inequality among men has increased markedly since the 1970s, suggesting that differences among fathers have grown over time. Five waves of LIS data and...

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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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Mechanisms of poverty alleviation

Nelson, Kenneth - 2004

particular transfer on poverty. The countries included in this study are Canada, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the …

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Income inequality over the later-life course: A comparative analysis of seven OECD countries

Brown, Robert L.; Prus, Steven G. - 2006

analysis is performed by comparing age groups within seven OECD countries (Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden …

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Welfare states, real income and poverty

Kenworthy, Lane - 2004

poverty for working-age households in Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States from the mid-1970s to … whole, the comparative evidence seems more consistent with the view of welfare state supporters. Germany, with its …

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Inequality, public opinion, and redistribution

Kenworthy, Lane; McCall, Leslie - 2007

According to the 'median-voter' hypothesis, greater inequality in the market distribution of earnings or income tends to produce greater generosity in redistributive policy. We outline the steps in the causal chain specified by the hypothesis and attempt to assess these steps empirically. Prior...

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