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The recent debate on trends in inequality in industrial countries has been marred by the lack of consensus about the relevant concept of inequality. Labour economists are concerned with inequality in earnings, macroeconomists with movements in the wage share, while policy-makers tend to focus on...
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preliminary analysis of interregional inequality and redistribution in four federal states - the United States of America, Canada …
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Within the OECD, there are significant differences in the trend and level of average work hours. [For example, from 1980 to 2000, average working hours per adult (ages 15-64) rose by 234 hours in the USA to 1476 while falling by 170 hours in Germany, to 973]. Since these trends appear to be...
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Working-age Americans work longer hours than adults in other industrialized countries. At the same time, the United States. has one of the least equal income distributions of any rich country. This paper provides a cross-national analysis of the impact of the exceptional U.S. income distribution...
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analysis is performed by comparing age groups within seven OECD countries (Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden …
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When incorporating differences in household characteristics, the choice of equivalence scale can affect the ranking of income distributions. An alternative approach was pioneered by A.B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (G.R. Feiwel (Ed.), Arrow and the Foundation of the Theory of Economic Policy,...
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investigation. Three age cohorts (young 50-59, middle, 60-69, and old 70+) were examined with marital status, country (Canada … 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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explained by differing probabilities of paid employment?' Luxembourg Income Study data on the USA, UK, Canada, Germany, France …
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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 … retirement-income systems of Canada, France, Germany, and the United States, however, tend to be older than age 75. Some experts …
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In this paper we describe and explain country differences in the effect of gender on the risk to become poor, using data from the Luxembourg Income Study on 22 industrialized countries. Although in most countries women are more likely to become poor than men, this is not the case for all...
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