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Immigrants in Two Modern Nations: Characteristics of the Foreign and Native Born Populations in Germany and the United States

Frick, Joachim R.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Wagner, Gert G. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999) 2, pp. 297-307

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Two scales, one methodology: Expenditure based equivalence scales for the United States and Germany

Merz, Joachim; Garner, Thesia; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - 1994

Choosing an appropriate equivalence scale is a prerequisite for comparisons of economic well-being income distribution, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use a country specific equivalence scale (social...

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Relative inequality and poverty in Germany and the United States using alternative equivalence scales

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Merz, Joachim - 1994

Mikrodaten von Deutschland und den Vereinigten Staaten der Luxemburg Income Study (LIS) werden verwendet, um die … Merz et al. (1993) für Deutschland und die Vereinigten Staaten entwickelt wurden. Frühere Studien bestätigend zeigen wir …, daß Ungleichheit und Armut in den Vereinigten Staaten gößer sind als in Deutschland. Alle Personengruppen zusammen …

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Failure to launch: Cross-national trends in the transition to economic independence

Bell, Lisa; Burtless, Gary; Gornick, Janet; Smeeding, … - 2007

We analyze trends in the age of economic independence in six industrialized countries, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The paper compares trends in the household living arrangements, employment rates, earnings levels, and net incomes as young adults...

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Poverty and income maintenance in old age: A cross-national view of low income older women

Smeeding, Timothy M.; Sandstrom, Susanna - 2005

Great strides have been made in reducing poverty amongst the elderly in most rich countries over the past forty years. But pensioner poverty has not been eradicated, especially in the English-speaking nations. Poverty rates amongst older women are much higher than those for older men and much...

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