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Income inequalities within couples in the Czech Republic and European countries

Mysíková, Martina - 2010

This study analyses the income distribution within couples in the Czech Republic and ten European countries using the EU-SILC 2005 database. Data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) database supplement the analysis with previous period (1986-2000). Women, on average, contribute less to a...

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Poverty and inequality among the elderly : a comparative study of the pension systems in Belgium and the Netherlands

Keupers, Ingrid - 2009

population, second and third pillar pensions are advocated. However, it is important not to lose sight of the social consequences … of encouraging these private pensions. In this master thesis the paradox of redistribution from Korpi & Palme (1998) is … redistribution further states that inequality will be higher when the first pillar provides flat-rate pensions and will be the lowest …

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Inside the black box : intra-household inequality and a gendered pandemic

Malghan, Deepak; Swaminathan, Hema - 2020

Emerging evidence suggests that COVID-19 has amplified existing gender divisions that disadvantage women. What is the appropriate unit of analysis to study the gendered impact of a pandemic? The study of gendered inequality - especially labor market opportunities and outcomes - has for the large...

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Who can (still) afford to retire early? : cross-country comparison of incomes of senior workers and young retirees using LIS data for 2007 & 2010

Petrovici, Carmen D.; Neugschwender, Jörg - 2014

The aim of this paper is to compare the economic situation of young retirees with their peers who decided to continue their working life before and during the recent economic crisis using the micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study Database (LIS) for four countries (Greece, Spain, the UK and...

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Gender, household and individual income in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the USA and the UK

Rake, Katherine (contributor); Daly, Mary (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Housing decisions, family types and gender : a look across LIS countries

Rossi, Mariacristina; Sierminska, Eva - 2015

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...

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Work/Family arrangements across the OECD : incorporating the female-breadwinner model

Kowalewska, Helen; Vitali, Agnese - 2019

Studies of work/family arrangements over time and space typically analyse families by the extent to which they follow a 'male-breadwinner' versus a 'dual-breadwinner' model. Yet, this analytical framework overlooks an alternative set of labour-market arrangements that is becoming increasingly...

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The danger of a one-sided story : the effects of production regimes and family policies on the gender employment gap

Kang, Ji Young - 2017

Despite growing interest in the effects of variations in work and family reconciliation policies on female employment across countries, the questions in what way and to what extent production regimes influence female employment provide an important backdrop to the current research. Drawing on...

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The persistence of the gender earnings gap : cohort trends and the role of education in twelve countries

Bar-Haim, Eyal; Chauvel, Louis; Gornick, Janet C.; … - 2018

Studying twelve countries over 30 years, we examine whether women's educational expansion has translated into a closing gender earnings gap. As educational attainment is cohortdependent, an Age-Period-Cohort analysis is most appropriate in our view. Using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data,...

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How the human capital model explains why the gender wage gap narrowed

Polachek, Solomon W. (contributor) - 2004 - June 2003, Latest Revision: March 2004

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