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Labour market institutions and income inequality
Checchi, Daniele; García-Peñalosa, Cecilia - 2008
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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Regional redistribution: Applying data from household income data
Ravishankar, Nirmala - 2003
preliminary analysis of interregional inequality and redistribution in four federal states - the United States of America, Canada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335394
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Understanding Growth and Inequality Trends: The Role of Labor Supply in the USA and Germany
Osberg, Lars - 2002
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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Income distribution, weekly hours of work, and time for child rearing: The US experience in a cross-national context
Burtless, Gary; Gornick, Janet; Smeeding, Timothy M. - 2008
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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Income inequality over the later-life course: A comparative analysis of seven OECD countries
Brown, Robert L.; Prus, Steven G. - 2006
analysis is performed by comparing age groups within seven OECD countries (Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden …
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International comparisons of income distribution
Bazen, Stephen; Moyes, Patrick - 2003
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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Inequality of wealth for never married women in Canada, Germany, Sweden, and the United States
Steinsultz, Linda - 2006
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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Time, money and inequality in international perspective
Osberg, Lars - 2002
explained by differing probabilities of paid employment?' Luxembourg Income Study data on the USA, UK, Canada, Germany, France …
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Two worlds of retirement income: A comparative analysis of retirement-income outcomes using the Luxembourg Income Study
Lomax, Kevin; Gran, Brian - 2003
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335422
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Gender differences in poverty: A cross-national research
Wiepking, Pamala; Maas, Ineke - 2004
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335434