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:...

This paper examines gender differentials in the resources of households and individuals across seven welfare states. In its first part, it asks whether female-headed households can secure a living income without recourse to either the state or the income of a male partner. It then steps inside...

Empirical research based on the Bhaduri/Marglin-variant of the Kaleckian model has recently shown that aggregate demand in many medium-sized and large open economies tends to be wage-led in the medium to long run, even in a period of increasing globalisation. In this paper we extend this type of...

Im ersten Teil der Studie wird die Entwicklung der funktionalen Einkommensverteilung in sechs ausgewählten Industrieländern seit Beginn der 1960er Jahre dargestellt. Als Maß wird dazu die Arbeitseinkommensquote verwendet, die das Verhältnis der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Arbeitseinkommen zum...