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attitudes: class differences in attitudes tend to be larger in countries with little inequality. The negative correlation … between the degree of inequality and the strength of the class-attitudes link persists even after controlling for various …
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assess how different welfare regimes gave different trade-offs between intra and inter cohort inequality. The Luxembourg …-cohort inequality, particularly in the case of the US. In terms of cohort sustainability of welfare regimes, the French and Italian …
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Lupu and Pontusson (2011) argue that the structure of income inequality, rather than its level, can explain differences … inequality, the concept of theoretical interest; and (c) there is no indication that skew in the distribution of incomes (rather … literature offers no support for the proposition that the structure of inequality has consequences for fiscal redistribution …
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approach. The LIS database is used to compare the approaches using an analysis of the changing contributions to inequality in …
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inequality by considering the corresponding relative and absolute ethical inequality indices. …
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, pensioners are compared on their poverty rates and inequality. The redistribution paradox states that poverty will be the highest … redistribution further states that inequality will be higher when the first pillar provides flat-rate pensions and will be the lowest …), inequality is higher than in Belgium (wage coupled pension) when calculated on the basis of pension income. When disposable …
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, France, and Sweden) that represent the principal types of welfare and gender regimes, we propose ways of operationalising the …
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It is widely held that people who work have no difficulty in avoiding poverty and guaranteeing their family a decent standard of living. This idea has proved false, as many authors have shown that the ranks of the poor are filled with active people, sometimes even working full time. But,...
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In an age when there is considerable focus on the needs and rights of children, it is perhaps a little surprising that parental income still mostly determines the standard of living that children enjoy. This has important implications, not just in terms of overall levels of welfare for children,...
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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. …
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