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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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This paper examines the effects of public policies in shaping wives' economic standing within the family in advanced …
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Drastic changes in the demographic structure of Japan, that is, the decline in the fertility rate and the growth in the aged population, and their possible consequences have been seriously discussed by scholars, policy makers, and the media. The continuous decline of the fertility rate raised...
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of the family budget and single women, employed or not, are overrepresented in the bottom of the income distribution. The …
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structures and family formation - more single-headed households and increased earnings correlation among partners in couples. The …
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Past literature on the family gap - the difference in outcomes for mothers and women without children - discusses … inequality in wages and employment. This study examines family gaps in the economic well-being of households, and analyzes the … Study, indicate that the generosity of the social protection system accounts for the size of the family gap, particularly in …
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Analyzes wives' labor force participation, wives' earnings, and the distribution of household income in eleven LIS countries and, for four countries, across time. The authors use the squared coefficient of variation to measure the mitigating effect of wives' earnings on inequality.
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