This paper examines whether retirement-income systems allow older individuals to enjoy socially acceptable income levels independent of paid work (decommodification) and the family (defamilialization). Little research has investigated the degree to which decommodification and defamilialization...

LIS database is used to compare various nations' earnings distributions with respect of earnings inequality during the mid 1980's. The paper also addresses whether or not earnings inequality changed in some of these countries between the beginning of the decade and the mid-1980's.

The author uses LIS data to test, on an individual level, Esping-Andersen's hypothesis that the three political strategies he conceived in The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (1990) furnish homogenous old-age decommodification levels. He finds not only that the levels of decommodification are...

This paper focuses on the differences in earnings and labor force status of low-skilled prime age men in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States at the end of the 20th century, and their relation to the differences in wage dispersion. In the UK and the US, where the bottom of the wage...

This paper examines the effect of public assistance, labor market and marriage market conditions on the prevalence of single mother families across countries and over time. A multinomial logit derived from a random utility approach is estimated using individual level data for 14 countries. I...

This article investigates the dual-earner model in families with children in Finland and Sweden from the end of the 1980s to the beginning of the 2000s. During this period the two countries introduced the same kind as well as different kinds of policies in relation to the dual-earner model....