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Per capita income versus household-need adjusted income: A cross-country comparison

Koulovatianos, Christos; Minkovski, Polina; Schroeder, … - 2010

We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study in order to quantify the economy-wide monetary gains achieved by household-size economies due to within-household sharing of goods by individuals living in multimember households. In most countries out of the twenty countries we examine, we observe a...

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Delay in marriage and income inequality in Japan: The impact of the increased number of unmarried adults living with their parents on the household economy

Shirahase, Sawako - 2009

the delay in marriage or even shy away from marriage among young adults. In this paper, looking at youth in terms of their … not always live alone, but share their households with their family, mostly their parents. Less than 20 percent of … proportion of income derived from unmarried adults in the household economy is more or less negatively associated with family …

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The determinants of the prevalence of single mothers: A cross-country analysis

González, Libertad - 2005

This paper examines the effect of public assistance, labor market and marriage market conditions on the prevalence of … woman's marriage market appear to lead to fewer never married mothers, but more divorced mothers. Higher child support or …

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Families, time and well-being in Canada

Burton, Peter; Phipps, Shelley - 2010

Using cross-sections of microdata from Surveys of Consumer Finance and Surveys of Labour and Income Dynamics, we document changes in the availability of time and money in Canadian two-parent families between 1971 and 2006 as the paid work hours of mothers have increased. While long hours of paid...

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Families, time and money in Canada, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States

Burton, Peter; Phipps, Shelley - 2009

Using microdata from the Luxembourg Income Study, we assess 'time crunch' for families with children in Canada, Germany, Sweden, the U.K. and the U.S. Both theory and empirical evidence suggest that both time and money are important inputs to the well-being of parents and children. We present...

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Impact of Dual Careers on Average Family Size: Comparison of 11 Countries

Cooke, Lynn Prince - 2001

formal model of family time and resource distribution, women's constraints therein, and the impact the market or social …While more and more married women participate in paid work, men have not equalized the division of labor by appreciably … increasing the time they devote to unpaid domestic tasks. The state can assist in managing this double time burden on women by …

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Educational assortative mating as a determinant of changing household income inequality: A 22-country study

Boertien, Diederik; Permanyer, Iñaki - 2017

In a search for determinants of societal levels of income inequality, scholars have suggested that homogamy within marriages and cohabiting relationships is a potentially important driver of inequality. If resourceful persons form couples together, and individuals without resources partner each...

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The impact of educational attainment on labor market outcomes

Pai, Kalpana - 2008

This paper studies the impact of educational attainment on Labor Market outcomes using data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) for 10 countries over a multi-year period. The 10 countries in this study include USA, Mexico, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Finland, Spain, Norway, Australia, and...

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Women's opportunities under different constellations of family policies in western countries: Inequality tradeoffs re-examined

Korpi, Walter; Ferrarini, Tommy; Englund, Stefan - 2010

facilitate work-family reconciliation and combine women's increased labor force participation with relatively high fertility …. While major negative policy effects for women with tertiary education are difficult to find, family policies clearly differ …Women's rising labor force participation since the 1960's was long seen as heralding decreasing gender inequalities …

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Payoff or penalty? A comparison of the marriage wage differential for men and women across 15 nations

Geist, Claudia - 2006

perspective by providing important descriptive evidence of the distribution of the marriage wage gap for men and women … advantages of married men as well marriage wage gaps found for women. Differences in human capital and household structure … for men. For men, the variation in the marriage wage gap net of human capital and household context is limited; for women …

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