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How Much does Work Matter for Inequality? Time, Money and Inequality in International Perspective

Osberg, Lars - 2002

.e. by differing probabilities of any employment? Across OECD countries there are large differences in the average level and … employment. The participation level is particularly important for inequality differences and there is persuasive evidence that … country attitudes to paid employment, particularly for women, differ significantly. This paper uses Luxembourg Income Study …

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Failure to launch: Cross-national trends in the transition to economic independence

Bell, Lisa; Burtless, Gary; Gornick, Janet; Smeeding, … - 2007

, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The paper compares trends in the household living arrangements, employment … this general pattern. Between the mid-1980s and 2000 employment rates improved among young Americans in their late 20s and … early 30s, and earnings levels either remained stable or increased modestly. The stability of U.S. employment levels helped …

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Reproducing occupational inequality: Marriage, parenthood and the gender divide in occupations

Hook, Jennifer L.; Pettit, Becky - 2008

It is well established that class and gender predict occupational placement across advanced industrialized countries. In exploratory analyses the authors document a third dimension to occupational segregation associated with family responsibilities, and consider explanations for cross- national...

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Income Inequality in Rich Countries During the 1980s

Smeeding, Timothy Michael; Coder, John F. - 1993

Using two period comparisons of six wealthy nations, the authors look at the extent of inequality at three levels of income: earned income, market income, and after tax and transfer disposable income. Interesting implications of the results are discussed.

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Male Pre and Post Tax Wage Inequality: A Six Country Comparison

Bradbury, Bruce - 1993

Looks at the pre- and post-tax wage distribution of prime age males in six countries, focusing on Australia. Analysis includes an examination of the impact of income taxes and employer and employee contributions on the wage distribution.

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Changing Inequality in Five Countries: The Role of Markets, Transfers and Taxes

Jäntti, Markus - 1993

Using LIS data the author explores the possibility that markets, the public sector, or demographic shifts affect the changing distribution of income among families in five industrialized countries in the 1980s.

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Determinants of Women's Labor-Force Participation: An Econometric Analysis for Five Countries

Phipps, Shelley A. - 1993

Addresses three hypotheses which may help to explain the differences in the observed labour-force participation rates of women and which can be examined using micro-data from LIS. These include: the importance of income needs, the role of marriage patterns, and the effects of children....

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A Cross-National Analysis of the Wages of Part-Time Workers: Evidence from the US, UK, Canada, and Australia

Gornick, Janet C.; Jacobs, Jerry A. - 1994

Hourly wage differentials between part-time and full-time workers, using comparable microdata from LIS for the US, UK, Canada, and Australia are examined. Institutions and policies that contribute to different outcomes for part-time workers in these countries, and implications of these policies...

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A Cross-National Comparison of Education and Earnings

O'Connor, Inge - 1994

This paper attempts to bridge the gap between previous cross-national work estimating rates of return to education and the current trend toward examining rates over time. Changes in the returns to education in the 1980s over five countries were driven by different forces across the countries.

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Immigrants and the Distribution of Income: National and International Comparisons

Saunders, Peter - 1994

This paper explores the income distribution position of immigrants and nonimmigrants using three different approaches. The results indicate that there is virtually no difference between the distributional profiles of immigrant and nonimmigrant families in Australia. However, when a similar...

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