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basis for further political discussions. It looks at the relative economic situation of families in comparison to childless … different sources of family income try to clarify the reasons behind the observed developments over time. Furthermore, the often … situation of families in comparison to childless couples at the very beginning of the 1980s is being conducted and compared with …
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In this paper we shall examine homeownership trends over the past 3 to 4 decades and discuss differences related to the … homeownership gap for women and men, with a focus on most recent trends. We shall compare differences in the US to those in … countries with different institutional structures and shall pay particular attention to differences across family types. Our …
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We explore the shape of the elderly homeownership rate using a collection of microeconomic surveys of 17 OECD countries …
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carried out an international comparison in housing tenure using household level data. The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS …
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outlive their husbands and have fewer claims on pensions and retirement wealth and maintain fewer productive capacities in the … children. We assess the net effects of existing policies on poverty and low income and wealth. While best practices may be …
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This paper estimates the redistributive effects of welfare state expenditures on children and disparities in the economic well-being of children in ten nations and relates the two. Data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and other sources for cash and non-cash...
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This study compares poverty among older adults in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan with that in selected Western societies and explores factors contributing to these high levels of poverty among older adults from a comparative perspective. Lower education levels of older people contribute to high...
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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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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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Using a sample of 20 OECD countries it is shown that the majority of countries decreased the level of intragenerational redistribution in the first pillar of their pension systems, though the evidence is weak in statistical terms. We find strong correlations between changes of the so-called...
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