of policy variation and household income changes on the micro-level, the main research question of the dissertation is to … institutional regulations of welfare states with the actual income situation of families. To achieve this, a research design was …

been affected across six countries (China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, UK and US). We first document changes in income … changes to their lives, and overall they are less supportive of these measures. These patterns are less clear across income … groups: while some countries have managed to shield lower income individuals from negative consequences, others have not. We …