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How Do the Elderly in Taiwan Fare Cross-Nationally? Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Project

Smeeding, Timothy Michael; Saunders, Peter - 1998

This paper uses microdata from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) to estimate and compare four dimensions of the well-being of the aged in Taiwan and eight other countries - the United States, Japan, Australia, Poland, Finland, Germany, Hungary and Canada. Together, these nine countries cover a...

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Examining the Impact on Married Couples' Earnings Distributions of Standardizing for Difference in Hours Worked

Kilfoil, Mary - 1999

This paper examines the relationship between the distribution of average annual household pre-tax earnings and average annual household hours of market work for married couple households. The point of departure in this paper is the treatment of the variation in annual hours worked either over...

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Household Income Distribution and Hours of Work: An International Comparison

Anxo, Dominique; Flood, Lennart - 1999

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, to analyze the relationship between the distribution of household income and the distribution of working time in six European countries and in the United States. The second objective is to assess how the tax and transfer systems affect the gender...

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The Family Gap in Pay: Evidence from Seven Industrialized Countries

Harkness, Susan; Waldfogel, Jane - 1999

In this paper we use microdata on employment and earnings from a variety of industrialized countries to investigate the … that there is a good deal of variation across our sample countries in the effects of children on women's employment. We … family gap in pay across countries is not primarily due to differential selection into employment or to differences in wage …

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Children in Large Families: Disadvantaged or Just Different?

Redmond, Gerry - 2000

' employment status is taken into account. The paper concludes by suggesting that there is a difference between help for families …

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On the Distribution of Income in Five Countries

DeNardi, Mariacristina; Ren, Liqian; Wei, Chao - 2000

The goal of this study is to look at different countries, study their redistribution policies and discuss the effects of the redistribution/incentives tradeoff. Since we want to look at countries that display different degrees of government intervention, we pick countries belonging to both...

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Gender Agency at the Intersection of State, Market and Family: Changes in Fertility and Maternal Labor Supply in Eight Countries

Cooke, Lynn Prince - 2001

Current debates on the welfare state entail two intertwined questions. First, does a nation have sufficient active labor force participation to maintain the benefits for non-participants? Second, do social provisions exacerbate or attenuate class, ethnic and other distinctions within society? As...

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Trends of Poverty and Income Inequality in Cross-National Comparison

Ritakallio, Veli-Matti - 2001

Central Europe, 10% in Canada, 12.5% in the UK, and as high as 17.5% in the USA. All the countries included in the analysis … the income inequality for disposable incomes has practically not increased at all. Canada shows a parallel trend. The USA …

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Regional Poverty within the Rich Countries

Jesuit, David; Rainwater, Lee; Smeeding, Timothy - 2002

Using regional incomes as the reference group, disposable income poverty rates are computed for the two most recent waves of Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data available for the following countries: Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In...

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Two worlds of retirement income: A comparative analysis of retirement-income outcomes using the Luxembourg Income Study

Lomax, Kevin; Gran, Brian - 2003

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...

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