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Cross-national patterns in individual and household employment and work hours by gender and parenthood
Misra, Joya; Budig, Michelle; Böckmann, Irene - 2010
We distinguish between overall employment rates and full-time employment rates among men and women, and examine total … household employment hours for heterosexually partnered men and women, as well as women's share in total household employment … hours, to investigate how gender, parenthood, and partner's employment are related to individual's employment patterns. We …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011652849
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011652909
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Fatherhood, intra-household employment dynamics, and men's earnings in a cross-national perspective
Boeckmann, Irene; Budig, Michelle - 2013
Studies find fatherhood earnings premiums in several European countries and the United States. Yet little research investigates how intra-household dynamics shape the size of the fatherhood premium cross-nationally. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study we examine how the division of labor...
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