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We examine the poverty rates and the income configurations among Japan and the LIS countries. The LIS countries are Germany, Italy, the UK, Denmark, the US, and Taiwan. We divide household including elderly into five types: living alone, couples only, living with their married children, living...
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different sources of family income try to clarify the reasons behind the observed developments over time. Furthermore, the often … family members. The paper ends with a brief discussion of the political implications of the findings. …
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children in small families. However, the analysis also finds that in those countries which give higher per-child family … allowances to larger families, the probability of children being in poverty does not increase with family size once parents …
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formal model of family time and resource distribution, women's constraints therein, and the impact the market or social … the burden of care maintains both female labor force participation and family size is then analyzed for 11 countries in …
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disposable family incomes for families following one of several stylized life-courses: marrying or partnering at age 24 but not … find a clear clustering of countries. In general, family gaps in both gross and disposable family income are smallest in …. This clustering is very similar to patterns observed in the literature on family gaps in women's earnings and suggests that …
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that provide income to older households. Third, there are policies that assist families with children (child or family … allowances, family leave policies and child support payments). It examines the extent to which each of these policies increased …
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This brief chapter introduces researchers to the possibilities for subnational research using the harmonized data sets made available via the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) (www.lisproject.org). We first offer a brief overview of the LIS and discuss specific challenges for subnational research...
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We present a markovian homogeneous model that mimics the evolution of household income. With three parameters only, the model generates a set of theoretical curves that closely fit actual income distributions, as observed in 19 advanced economies in the period 1967-2004. The fit is better, and...
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This paper examines the effects of public policies in shaping wives' economic standing within the family in advanced …
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on within-country associations between child poverty and three important characteristics: family type, parents … ways; (c) within countries, family demography and parents' labor market engagement are the main factors that shape children …
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