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Structural racism, family structure, and black-white inequality in poverty : the differential impact of the legacy of slavery among single mother & married parent households

Baker, Regina S.; O'Connell, Heather A. - 2022

structural factors. Yet, structural factors, like the legacy of slavery, may be key to understanding how race and family … poverty among individuals within the same family structure. Background: Family structure is a dominant explanation for racial … U.S. South. Results: There is an impact of the legacy of slavery on Black-White inequality in poverty even within family …

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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

We estimate wage differentials between foreign- and native-born workers across developed and developing economies. We leverage internationally harmonised microdata covering 21 countries, 20 years and 1.5 million individuals and employ counterfactual decomposition techniques. We find that...

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The effect of attitudes toward migrants on migrant skill composition

Avdiu, Besart - 2017

I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants in general can reduce the average skill composition. The intuition for the result is that the highly...

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Creators' income situation in the digital age

Cuntz, Alexander - 2018

The digital transformation imposes both opportunities and risks for creativity and for creative employment, with implications for trends in income levels and the distribution of income. First, we consider skill-biased technological change as a determinant of income and labor market outcomes in...

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Taxation of families and "families of taxation"? : inequality modification between family types across welfare states

Schechtl, Manuel - 2020 - This version: 22.07.2020

from rich to poor (vertical) but also between family types (horizontal). Different types of families are treated … family types of non-retiree households. To answer my research aim I draw on harmonized data from 30 countries provided by the … Luxembourg Income Study (LIS). I estimate pre- and post-fiscal income inequality measured as between-family-type Theil indices …

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Work-family reconciliation policies and women's and mothers' labor market outcomes in rich democracies

Brady, David; Blome, Agnes; Kmec, Julie A. - 2018

Prominent research has claimed that work-family reconciliation policies trigger "tradeoffs" and "paradoxes" in terms of … social policy, work, family, and gender inequality. Motivated by limitations of prior research, we analyze the relationship … between the two most prominent work-family reconciliation policies (paid parental leave and public childcare coverage) and …

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Poverty and place in North America : overview

Bane, Mary Jo (contributor); Zenteno, René M. (contributor) - 2005

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Taxation and self-employment

Bárány, Zsófia L. - 2017

In this paper I theoretically show that if the self-employed evade income taxes, then the choice of being self-employed is more sensitive to the tax rates on wages than to tax rates on income from self-employment. Using variation in the statutory tax rates across countries, industries, and...

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Families, time and money in Canada, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States

Burton, Peter S.; Phipps, Shelley A. - 2009

Using microdata from the Luxembourg Income Study, we assess 'time crunch' for families with children in Canada, Germany, Sweden, the U.K. and the U.S. Both theory and empirical evidence suggest that both time and money are important inputs to the well-being of parents and children. We present...

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Family structure, female employment, and national income inequality : a cross-national study of 16 Western countries

Kollmeyer, Christopher - 2012

This study assesses whether recent changes in family structure and female employment patterns have altered the …

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