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Stuck in the Tunnel: Is Globalization Muddling the Middle Class?

Birdsall, Nancy; Graham, Carol; Pettinato, Stefano - 2000

Our objective in this paper is to assess how middle-income groups are faring with the global turn to the market. We suggest some simple measures of the middle-the size and income shares of households around the median (75/125%)-and their income status relative to wealthier counterparts. Our...

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The Decline of the Middle Class: An International Perspective

Pressman, Steven - 2001

plagued most of the world economy? This paper will explore these issues. Section II describes previous attempts at defining …

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Universalism and Targeting: An International Comparison using the LIS database

Abe, Aya K. - 2001

In combating poverty, whether or not to design a universal program or a targeted program has been a perpetual dilemma. The objective of this paper is to conduct an international comparison of the 'universality' and 'targeting' of social security systems. The paper presents an outline of...

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Family Policy Models and Family Policy Outcomes - A Nordic Perspective

Hiilamo, Heikki - 2002

Constructing typologies or categories of welfare states characterized social policy research during the last decade. Esping-Andersen's Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (1990) launched an avalanche of typologies. Interest in cross-national comparisons has been facilitated by several attempts to...

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Poverty and Income Distribution

Jesuit, David; Smeeding, Timothy - 2002

in the developed world. A summary assessment of the available comparative databases is included in our discussion. We …

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Producing Time Series Data for Income Distribution: Sources, Methods and Techniques

Atkinson, Tony; Brandolini, Andrea; Smeeding, Timothy - 2001

This chapter addresses the important issue of the quality of time series data on income distribution. We hope to suggest both standards and practice patterns that will improve the production and use of time series data on inequality. Thus, we address three groups: primary data producers;...

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(Re-)Distribution of Personal Incomes, Education and Economic Performance across Countries

Rehme, Günther - 2002

In many OECD countries income inequality has risen, but surprisingly re-distribution as well. The theory attributes this partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U-shaped way on education. To maintain a given level...

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A Comparison of Parametric Models of Income Distribution across Countries and over Time

Bandourian, Ripsy; McDonald, James; Turley, Robert - 2002

The five-parameter generalized beta distribution and ten of its special cases are considered as models fore the size distribution of income. The models are fit to income data for 23 countries and various years - a total of 82 datasets. Of the models considered, the Weibull, Daagum and...

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International Evidence on the Impact of Transfers and Taxes on Alternative Poverty Indexes

DeFina, Robert H.; Thanawala, Kishor - 2002

Changes in the headcount rate are the standard metric for gauging how public transfers and taxes affect poverty. An alternative strategy, one theoretically more appealing and complete, is to rely on distribution-sensitive indexes [Sen (1976, 1981)]. How would policies measured impacts change if...

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The Structure of Women's Employment in Comparative Perspective

Pettit, Becky; Hook, Jennifer - 2002

influence of demographic and economic structures and institutional conditions on female employment. Single-country studies show …, comparativists emphasize institutional explanations for observed cross-national variation in aggregate levels of female employment … synthesize structural and institutional accounts for variation in women's employment. Structural conditions including …

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