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poverty among individuals within the same family structure. Background: Family structure is a dominant explanation for racial … structural factors. Yet, structural factors, like the legacy of slavery, may be key to understanding how race and family … 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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Germany, Italy, the UK, Denmark, the US, and Taiwan. We divide household including elderly into five types: living alone …
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This brief chapter introduces researchers to the possibilities for subnational research using the harmonized data sets made available via the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) (http://www.lisproject.org). We first offer a brief overview of the LIS and discuss specific challenges for subnational...
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In this study, we examined to what extent family policies differently affect poverty among single-parent households and … unpaid leave) and financial support policies (tested with family allowances). We used data from the Luxembourg Income Study … Database, covering 514,019 households in 18 OECD countries from 1978 to 2008, combined with data from the Comparative Family …
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. Family policies do not, however, have a significant impact on the income stratification of women's economic independence …
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Most methods for the analysis of distributional change rely on the changes in the income of a particular group of people, taking either the situation of this group in the previous period, or the average change in the population, as reference point. By contrast, we propose a measure of...
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There is increasing scholarly evidence that financialization has contributed to rising income inequality, especially by concentrating income among the affluent and rich. There is less empirical research examining who is losing out to the affluent. This paper fills this gap by examining how three...
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family income? Two perspectives are used: employed persons (examining the association between their earnings and the income …
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of the family budget and single women, employed or not, are overrepresented in the bottom of the income distribution. The …
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