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Time, money and inequality in international perspective

Osberg, Lars - 2002

explained by differing probabilities of paid employment?' Luxembourg Income Study data on the USA, UK, Canada, Germany, France … persuasive evidence that attitudes to paid employment, particularly for women, differ significantly. This paper therefore asks …) female, and total, employment rate. In every case, measured trans-Atlantic differences in the inequality of money income …

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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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Estimating labour supply elasticities based on cross-country micro data: A bridge between micro and macro estimates?

Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka; Selin, Håkan - 2013

We utilise repeated cross sections of micro data from several countries, available from the Luxembourg Income Study, LIS, to estimate labour supply elasticities, both at the intensive and extensive margin. The benefit of the data is that it spans over four decades and includes a large number of...

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The middle class in less developed american nations

Pressman, Steven - 2010

be Brazil and Mexico, where employment appears to increase the size of the middle class. …

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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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To What Extent Do Family Policy and Social Assistance Transfers Equitably Reduce the Intensity of Child Poverty? A Comparison between the US, France, Great Britain and Luxembourg

Jeandidier, Bruno; Albiser, Etienne - 2001

Children do not control their socio-economic situation; they benefit or suffer from their parents' situation. In north European countries major social transfer schemes, depending on the presence of dependent children, answer to multiple objectives (birth rate support, reduced inequality in the...

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