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German stagnation vs. Swedish progression: Gender wage gaps in comparison, 1960-2006
Gärtner, Svenja - 2013
This article provides a comparative analysis of the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany and Sweden … traditions penetrate institutional settings and ensnare Germany in a cultural trap with regard to gender equality. While Sweden … Sweden, which can be explained in part by deeply held social attitudes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335460
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Competing with the Dragon : Employment and Wage Effects of Chinese Trade Competition in 17 Sectors Across 18 OECD Countries
Thewissen, Stefan - 2014
The rapid rise of China on the global economic stage could have substantial and unequal employment and wage effects in advanced industrialised democracies given China's large volume of low-wage labour. Thus far, these effects have not been analysed in the comparative political economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043384
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Sectoral Trends in Earnings Inequality and Employment : International Trade, Skill-Biased Technological Change, or Labour Market Institutions?
Thewissen, Stefan; Wang, Chen; van Vliet, Olaf - 2013
Current studies addressing the rise in inequality confine themselves to country-level developments. This paper delineates trends in earnings inequality and employment at the sectoral level for eight LIS countries between 1985-2005. Earnings inequality mainly manifests itself within rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014155368
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Social assistance and minimum income protection in the EU: Vulnerability, adequacy, and convergence
Nelson, Kenneth - 2009
In this paper social assistance developments are analyzed in a large number of EU member states, including European transition countries and the new democracies of southern Europe. The empirical analysis is based on the unique and recently established SaMip Dataset, which provides social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335403
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Inequality of personal income in the enlarged EU: The role of the welfare states, regional cohesion policies and economic integration
Hoffmeister, Onno - 2006
This study examines how the distribution of income across persons, regions, countries and larger geographical areas in the EU has changed in the dawn of the enlargement of the EU. It focuses especially on the effects of trade liberalization, the welfare states and the regional cohesion policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335405
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Immigration and income inequality in Sweden
Grundsten, Ronja - 2015
Income inequality has been on the rise in many industrialised countries since around the 1980's. In Sweden the increase … of income inequality has been particularly large. This in spite of Sweden's extensive redistribution system and public … that is yet fairly unexplored, namely immigration. As inequality has increased in Sweden, so has also immigration. Sweden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335806
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The end of welfare states as we know them? A multidimensional perspective
Sowula, Jakub; Gehrig, Franziska; Scruggs, Lyle A.; … - 2023
Sweden and Germany, prototypical socialdemocratic and conservative welfare states, respectively, and compare them against the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477568
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335361
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335363