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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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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 … level as of 2000, were found in Sweden, the country with by far the most generous welfare state. …

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The temporal welfare state: A crossnational comparison

Rice, James Mahmud; Goodin, Robert E.; Parpo, Antti - 2006

, France, and Sweden) that represent the principal types of welfare and gender regimes, we propose ways of operationalising the …

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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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Inequality of wealth for never married women in Canada, Germany, Sweden, and the United States

Steinsultz, Linda - 2006

, Germany, Sweden, and United States), and level of education in a sample of 5885 women. The findings of the study indicated … that education, age and marital status were significant predictors of wealth in the US, Canada, and Sweden, although … marital status was reversed for Sweden. While education and age were significant predictors of wealth for women in Canada …

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Time, money and inequality in international perspective

Osberg, Lars - 2002

and Sweden is used to simulate the income distributions that other countries would have if they had the US (or German …

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Two worlds of retirement income: A comparative analysis of retirement-income outcomes using the Luxembourg Income Study

Lomax, Kevin; Gran, Brian - 2003

employ the Luxembourg Income Study to compare Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Sweden, and the United States. This study … defamilialization levels predicted for their system. Our results show Sweden and Canada provide highest autonomy levels, Finland, France …

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What is behind native-immigrant social income gaps?

Anastossova, Lubomira; Paligorova, Teodora - 2006

comparable data from five countries - Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Norway and the U.S. - to ask whether immigrants benefit more from …

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