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More than just Nickels and Dimes: A cross-national analysis of working poverty in affluent democracies

Brady, David; Fullerton, Andrew S.; Cross, Jennifer Moren - 2010

Despite its centrality to contemporary inequality, working poverty is often popularly discussed but rarely studied by sociologists. Using the Luxembourg Income Study, we analyze whether an individual is working poor across 18 affluent democracies circa 2000. We demonstrate that working poverty...

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Does European-style welfare generosity discourage single mother employmnet?

Destro, Lane; Brady, David - 2010

Although many have expressed concern over whether generous welfare policies discourage the employment of single mothers, scholars have rarely exploited cross-national variability in the generosity of social policies to assess this question. This is the case even though much previous scholarship...

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Child support policy: An international perspective (Chapter 1)

Skinner, C.; Bradshaw, J.; Davidson, J. - 2008

This is a chapter from a report of a comparative study of child support policy in fourteen countries (Skinner, C., Bradshaw, J. and Davidson, J. (2007) Child support policy: an international perspective, Department for Work and Pensions Research Report 405, Leeds: Corporate Document Services....

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Disentangling income inequality and the redistributive effect of taxes and transfers in 20 LIS countries over time

Caminada, Koen; Goudswaard, Kees; Wang, Chen - 2012

In most OECD countries the gap between rich and poor has widened over the past decades. This paper analyzes whether and to what extent taxes and social transfers have contributed to this trend. Has the redistributive power of different social programs changed over time? The paper contributes to...

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Cross-temporal and cross-national poverty and mortality rates among developed countries

Fritzell, Johan; Kangas, Olli; Bacchus Hertzman, Jennie; … - 2013

A prime objective for welfare state activities is to take action to enhance population health and decrease mortality risks. Poverty has for several centuries been seen as a key social risk factor in these respects. Consequently, the fight against poverty has historically been at the forefront of...

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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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Winners and losers: The consequences of welfare state policies for gender wage inequality

Mandel, Hadas - 2010

Cross-national studies of the impact of welfare states on gender inequality tend to overlook socioeconomic divisions among women. This paper challenges the implicit assumption that welfare states have uniform effects on the labour market attainments of all women, arguing that the impact of state...

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Child poverty and changes in child poverty in rich countries since 1990

Chen, Wen-Hao; Corak, Miles - 2005

This paper documents levels and changes in child poverty rates in 13 OECD countries using data from the Luxembourg Income Study project, and focusing upon an analysis of the reasons for changes over the 1990s. The objective is to uncover the relative role of income transfers from the state in...

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Government programs and social outcomes: The United States in comparative perspective

Smeeding, Timothy M. - 2005

While all nations value low poverty, high levels of economic self-reliance, and equality of opportunity for younger persons, they differ dramatically in the extent to which they reach these goals. Most nations have remarkable similarities in the sources of social concern within each nation -...

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Out of the public eye: The International Labour Organisation in the media

Nullmeier, Frank - 2014

trifft auch auf die globale Sozialpolitik zu. Die vorliegende Studie beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie globale … Sozialpolitik - und insbesondere die Internationale Arbeitsorganisation (ILO) als deren zentraler Akteur - in den Medien dargestellt … werden. Wie hoch ist die mediale Aufmerksamkeit für das Thema globale Sozialpolitik? Zu welchen Anlässen wird die Presse auf …

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