Despite its centrality to contemporary inequality, working poverty is often popularly discussed but rarely studied by sociologists. Using the Luxembourg Income Study, we analyze whether an individual is working poor across 18 affluent democracies circa 2000. We demonstrate that working poverty...

Our study analyzes how political context, embodied by the welfare state and Leftist political actors, shapes individual poverty. Using the Luxembourg Income Study, we conduct a multilevel analysis of working-aged adult poverty across 18 affluent Western democracies. Our index of welfare...

Our study analyzes how political context, embodied by the welfare state and Leftist political actors, shapes individual poverty. Using the Luxembourg Income Study, we conduct a multilevel analysis of working-aged adult poverty across 18 affluent Western democracies. Our index of welfare...

Ordinal-level measures are very common in social science research. Researchers often analyze ordinal dependent variables using the proportional odds logistic regression model. However, this ‘‘traditional’’ method is one of many different types of logistic regression...

First, we evaluate whether structural characteristics of people's family and friend social networks are associated with involvement in local and extra-local civic participation. Second, we examine the interactions between social network attributes and personal characteristics on varied forms of...

This study examines the effects of union density and government-sector employment on earnings inequality in Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) in the United States. Copyright (c) 2005 by the Southwestern Social Science Association.

This study examines how the dynamics of the global economy, particularly new patterns of capital ownership, affect earnings inequality in the 276 US metropolitan areas and how these patterns vary across the USA between the south and non-south. We examine the impact of five measures of...

Voting is a socially desirable act and a basic form of political participation in the United States. This social desirability sometimes leads respondents in surveys, such as the National Election Study (NES), to claim to have voted when they did not. The methodology of previous studies assumes...