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The structure of income in elderly households and relative poverty rates in Japan from the viewpoint of international comparisons

Murozumi, Masako; Shikata, Masato - 2008

We examine the poverty rates and the income configurations among Japan and the LIS countries. The LIS countries are Germany, Italy, the UK, Denmark, the US, and Taiwan. We divide household including elderly into five types: living alone, couples only, living with their married children, living...

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Equalizing income versus equalizing opportunity: A comparison of the United States and Germany

Almås, Ingvild - 2008

Germany has lower posttax income inequality than the United States and hence is doing better according to a strict egalitarian fairness ideal. On the other hand, the United States is doing better than Germany according to a libertarian fairness ideal, which states that people should be held...

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Fractionalization and the size of government

Lind, Jo Thori - 2004

I study the effect of voters with a group-based social conscience. Voters care more about the well-being of those belonging to their own group than the rest of the population. Within a model of political tax determination, both fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for...

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Families, time and money in Canada, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States

Burton, Peter; Phipps, Shelley - 2009

Using microdata from the Luxembourg Income Study, we assess 'time crunch' for families with children in Canada, Germany, Sweden, the U.K. and the U.S. Both theory and empirical evidence suggest that both time and money are important inputs to the well-being of parents and children. We present...

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The high-employment route to low inequality

Kenworthy, Lane - 2010

inequality in check, but their sustainability is increasingly threatened. A possible solution is high levels of employment. …

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Fertility and family income on the move: An international comparison over 20 Years

Dickmann, Nicola - 2003

The income situation of families has always been a major topic for politicians and the public in modern welfare states. The ongoing call for better funding of families reflects the hardship of couples with children who seem to be unable to sustain the living standards of childless couples in...

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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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Noncash Benefits and Income Distribution

Steckmest, Elisabeth - 1996

This report gives the results derived from a cross-sectional analysis of the distributional effects of noncash benefits in four countries. The results of the Norwegian data suggest that the distribution of benefits influences the relative income position of household groups. The main...

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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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Long Run Trends in Economic Inequality in Five Countries - A Birth Cohort View

Osberg, Lars - 2000

This paper examines the level and distribution of equivalent after tax, after transfer money income in Canada, the USA … countries studied differ in the trends observed in aggregate income, poverty, polarization and income inequality. In the USA and … gains of the top decile of the UK and the USA had been transferred to the bottom decile, poverty in both countries in 1994 …

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