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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003881796

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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The time divide in cross-national perspective : the work week, gender and education in 17 countries

Frase, Peter; Gornick, Janet C. - 2009

Prior empirical studies have found that American workers report longer hours than workers in other highly industrialized countries, and that the highly educated report the longest hours relative to other educational levels. This paper analyzes disparities in working hours by gender and education...

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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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Nearly universal, but somewhat distinct : the feminization of poverty in affluent Western democracies, 1969 - 2000

Brady, David (contributor); Kall, Denise (contributor) - 2007

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The impact of economic inequality and gender parity on educational assortative mating : evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study

Monaghan, David - 2014

Though extensive research has described the prevalence of educational assortative mating, the causes of its variation across countries and over time is not well understood. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study Database, I investigate the impact on marital sorting of both inequality...

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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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