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Childcare markets and maternal employment : a typology

Flynn, Lindsay - 2018

How does the structure of a country's childcare market influence maternal employment? Childcare markets vary across countries, leading mothers to rely on various forms of care depending on what is available to them in both the public (state-provided) and private (non-state) childcare markets....

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The "migrant in the market" : migration and care work across six liberal welfare regimes

Lightman, Naomi - 2016

This article disaggregates high and low status care work, based on the degree of "social closure" in a given caring occupation, across six liberal welfare regimes: Australia, Canada, Ireland, Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Bolstering the argument that there is a "migrant in...

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Labour income, social transfers and child poverty

Bradbury, Bruce; Jäntti, Markus; Lindahl, Lena - 2017 - Version: July 2017

This paper documents the variation in living standards of the poorest fifth of children in rich (and some middle-income) nations, with a focus on the relative importance and interaction of social transfers (net of taxes) and labour market incomes. Overall, the cross-national variation in the...

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Comparing the immigrant-native pay gap : a novel evidence from home and host countries

Cupák, Andrej; Ciaian, Pavel; Kancs, D'Artis - 2021

countries. Wage differentials suggest the opposite for workers born in developed countries - their wages are higher not only in …

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A care convergence? : quantifying wage disparities for migrant care workers across three welfare regimes

Lightman, Naomi - 2018

Social policy literature is divided on the ongoing relevance of welfare regime typologies given considerable heterogeneity within as well as between categories. Using 2010 Luxembourg Income Study data, this study disaggregates high and low status paid care work, quantifying any associate wage...

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The male marriage wage premium in cross-national perspective

Hoon, Sean de; Keizer, Renske; Dykstra, Pearl - 2015

Using data from 29 countries from the Luxemburg Income Study, we demonstrate that married men earn on average 7% more than unmarried men. Unmarried men would have to work 43 hours per week in order to earn the same as married men working 40 hours. We find substantial cross-national variation: in...

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Eugenics of inequality : UK and US fatherhood premia across the earnings distribution, 1974 - 2010

Cooke, Lynn P. - 2014

Fathers in many countries enjoy a wage premium as compared with childless men, but parenthood does not benefit all men equally. Income inequality among men has increased markedly since the 1970s, suggesting that differences among fathers have grown over time. Five waves of LIS data and...

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Exactly how has income inequality changed? : Patterns of distributional change in core societies

Alderson, Arthur S. (contributor); … - 2005

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Policy effects on class-gender employment intersections

Cooke, Lynn P. - 2009

equality in Australia, East and West Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The countries were selected … hours and wages, as well as national differences controlling for individual characteristics. Two findings bear particular … Germany underline that class equality policies do not ensure greater class equality for all social groups. Second, the UK and …

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Failure to launch : cross-national trends in the transition to economic independence

English, Lisa Bellavance; Burtless, Gary; Gornick, Janet C. - 2007

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