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The extraordinary success of the Swedish Social Democrats
Tomasson, Richard F. - In: The journal of politics : JOP 31 (1969) 3, pp. 772-798
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Altersteilzeit: Erfahrungen und Diskussionen in Deutschland und anderen EU-Ländern
Lindecke, Christiane; Voss-Dahm, Dorothea; Lehndorff, … - 2007
Arbeitszeit senken - umgesetzt wurde.Die Erfahrungen mit graduellen Ausstiegspfaden und besonders der Altersteilzeit in Schweden …, Finnland, Dänemark und den Niederlanden geben einen Einblick in die Such- und Experimentierprozesse in anderen europäischen … Schweden wird allerdings deutlich, dass Regulierungen für den graduellen Ausstieg auch in die entgegengesetzte Richtung wirken …
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Is mothers' employment an effective means to fight family poverty? Empirical evidence from seven European countries
Büchel, Felix; Mertens, Antje; Orsini, Kristian - 2003
Using data from the mid-1990s from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), we analyze for several household types the effect of mothers' work participation on families' relative income position and poverty risk. Results are compared across seven European countries with contrasting family policies:...
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Families at the margins of the welfare state: A comparative study on the prevalence of poverty among families receiving social assistance
Kuivalainen, Susan - 2005
The aim is to assess the prevalence of poverty among families receiving social assistance. We will examine the incidence of poverty among the recipients in relation to the general poverty profile. To answer these questions, the adequacy and poverty reduction effectiveness of social assistance...
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Societal shifts and changed patterns of poverty
Fritzell, Johan; Ritakallio, Veli-Matti - 2004
This paper uses data from the Luxembourg Income Study to analyse cross-national and cross-temporal poverty risks in eleven western countries. Our analyses are embedded in the tradition of welfare state research. Despite a hundred years of welfare state efforts, at the beginning of the 21st...
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Ireland's income distribution in comparative perspective
Nolan, Brian; Smeeding, Timothy - 2004
One of the most frequently expressed concerns about the unprecedented economic boom that Ireland experienced in the second half of the 1990s has been that the benefits were not shared evenly, that rising living standards were accompanied by widening gaps leaving Ireland with a particularly...
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The impact of temporary employment and employment protection on labour productivity: evidence from an industry-level panel of EU countries
Lisi, Domenico - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 46 (2013) 2, pp. 119-144
In recent years the availability of new industry-level data allowed to evaluate the impact of labour market policies more consistently than previous standard cross-country studies. In this paper an industry-level panel is exploited to evaluate the impact of Employment Protection Legislation...
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Imbalanced Job Polarization and Skills Mismatch in Europe
Sparreboom, Theo; Tarvid, Alexander - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 49 (2016) 1, pp. 15-42
This paper considers the education of the labour force based on an analysis of trends in and the relationships between job polarization and skills mismatch. Both job polarization and skills mismatch have become topics of increasing interest, but relationships between the two have been relatively...
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Household Income Distribution and Hours of Work: An International Comparison
Anxo, Dominique; Flood, Lennart - 1999
The aim of this paper is twofold. First, to analyze the relationship between the distribution of household income and the distribution of working time in six European countries and in the United States. The second objective is to assess how the tax and transfer systems affect the gender...
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