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Extreme working hours in Western Europe and North America : a new aspect of polarization

Burger, Anna S. - 2015

Europe. Whereas the Scandinavian and French ratios of workers with extreme hours remained very low, most other countries in … Western Europe exhibit significantly higher ratios of extreme workers after the beginning of the 1990s than in the previous …

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The struggle between equity and efficiency : do nordic countries have a free lunch?

Berthold, Norbert; Brunner, Alexander B. - 2008 - Revised version: March 2009

investigations often fail to find evidence for this proposition. Furthermore there are hints that some social models in Europe can …

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Do multiculturalism policies erode the welfare state?

Banting, Keith G. (contributor); Kymlicka, Will (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Redistributive outcome of sickness insurance : an empirical study of social insurance institutions

Khan, Jahangir (contributor); Jansson, Bjarne (contributor) - 2006 - Rev.

Aims: We analyzed the redistributive outcomes for sickness benefits using a typology of social insurance institutions compared to external factors for sickness risk. Material: Unbalanced panel data of the Luxembourg Income Study on household earnings, sickness benefits and labour force...

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Women, poverty, and social policy regimes : a cross-national analysis

Gornick, Janet C.; Jäntti, Markus - 2010

This paper assesses women's poverty in 26 diverse LIS countries - five Anglophone countries, six Continental European countries, four Nordic countries, two Eastern European countries, three Southern European countries, and six Latin American countries. Our analyses are organized around four...

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The implications of cross-national policies for the relative incomes of families with children by family structure and parental education

Moller, Stephanie; Misra, Joya; Wemlinger, Elizabeth; … - 2013

Focusing on an array of European and North American welfare states between 1985 and 2005, we consider how welfare state policies are related to households' relative incomes, taking into account cross-national and temporal differences in income distributions. At the same time, we consider how two...

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Disentangling income inequality and the redistributive effect of taxes and transfers in 20 LIS countries over time

Caminada, Koen; Goudswaard, Kees Pieter; Wang, Chen - 2012

In most OECD countries the gap between rich and poor has widened over the past decades. This paper analyzes whether and to what extent taxes and social transfers have contributed to this trend. Has the redistributive power of different social programs changed over time? The paper contributes to...

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Perceived social position and income inequality : do they move together? : evidence from Europe and the United States

Ricci, Chiara Assunta - 2016

The match between perception and reality can depend on many different elements across societies over time, but subjective and objective dimensions are both relevant particularly in social class analysis. The aim of this paper is to investigate perceived social position and income inequality in...

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Income inequality and redistribution in Europe

Tóthová, Simona - 2011

This thesis is an empirical investigation of the relationship between income inequality and redistribution and their impact on the poorest segment of population. It is examined by two models in which we use transformed Gini coefficient as a measure of income inequality and sharegain (difference...

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Left-behind vs. unequal places : interpersonal inequality, economic decline, and the rise of populism in the US and Europe

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Terrero-Dávila, Javier; Lee, Neil - 2023

interpersonal inequality, and the rise of far-right populism in Europe and in the US. The analysis -conducted at small region level … for Europe and county level for the US- shows that there are both similarities and differences in the factors connected to … minorities shunned populism. In Europe, the most significant factor behind the rise of far-right populism is economic decline …

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