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190: Social Policy or Structure? Income Transfers, Socio-demographic Factors and Poverty in the Nordic Countries and in France

Olli Kangas and Veli-Matti Ritakallio

189: Old-Age Security Reforms in Central-Eastern Europe: The Cases of Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Hungary and Poland

Timothy Smeeding, Gert Wagner and Mechthild Schrooten

188: Do Social-Welfare Policies Reduce Poverty? A Cross-National Assessment

Lane Kenworthy

187: Does Social Policy Matter? Poverty Cycles in OECD Countries

Joakim Palme and Olli Kangas

186: The Pension Income of the Elderly: A Comparison between Belgium and the Netherlands

Gijs Dekkers

185: Inequality Measures, Equivalence Scales and Adjustment for Household Size and Composition

Paolo Figini

184: The Redistributive Aim of Social Policy: A Comparative Analysis of Taxes, Tax Expenditure Transfers and Direct Transfers in Eight Countries

Rune Ervik

183: How Do the Elderly in Taiwan Fare Cross-Nationally? Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Project

Peter Saunders and Timothy Smeeding

182: Adequacy and Poverty among the Retired

Richard Hauser

181: Statistical Inference for Stochastic Dominance and for the Measurement of Poverty and Inequality

Russell Davidson and Jean-Yves Duclos

180: Founding the Welfare State: Comparative Public Opinion on Taxes and Distribution of Income

Toril Aalberg

179: Contradictory Findings? The Connection between Structural Factors, Income Transfers and Poverty in OECD Countries

Tiina Makinen

178: Child Poverty and Family Poverty in OECD Countries

Katja Forssen

177: The Effects of Changing Labor Markets and Social Policies on Income Inequality and Poverty: Hungary and the Other Visegrad Countries Compared

István Tóth and Michael Förster

176: Part-Time Work and Industry Growth

Bruce Fallick

175: Does Democracy Promote Equality?

Rosa Mulé

174: The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality: Welfare State Institutions, Inequality and Poverty in the Western Countries

Joakim Palme and Walter Korpi

173: Generations and the Distribution of Economic Well-Being: A Cross-National View

Dennis Sullivan and Timothy Smeeding

172: In Search for a Smoking Gun: What Makes Income Inequality Vary Over Time in Different Countries?

Mats Johansson and Bjorn Gustafsson

171: Women in Transition: Changes in Gender Wage Differentials in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Elizabeth Brainerd

170: Cross-National Patterns of Labor Force Withdrawal

Joseph Quinn and Timothy Smeeding

169: Demography or Income Packaging: What Explains the Income Distribution of The Netherlands?

Lee Rainwater and Timothy Smeeding

168: Gender, the Welfare State, and Public Employment: A Comparative Study of Seven Industrialized Countries

Janet Gornick and Jerry Jacobs

167: Statistical Inferences for Poverty Measures with Relative Poverty Rates

Buhong Zheng

166: Poverty and Income Inequality: An International Comparison, 1980s and 1990s

Nirit Israeli and Yaser Awad

165: International comparisons of Poverty Intensity: Index Decomposition and Bootstrap Inference

Kuan Xu and Lars Osberg

164: Educational Attainment and Earnings Inequality in Eight Nations

Dennis Sullivan and Timothy Smeeding

163: All the World s Entrepreneurs: The Role of Self-Employment in Nineteen Nations

Dennis Sullivan and Timothy Smeeding

162: Changes in the Standard of Living, Connected with Aging and Retirement: Comparative Perspective (USA, Germany, Russia)

Evgeniy Kazakov

161: The Regional Differentiation on Poverty in East-European Countries

Alfiya Nizamova

160: Cross-national Differences in the Rise in Earnings Inequality--Market and Institutional Factors

Mary Joyce and Peter Gottschalk

159: Exploring the Impact of Trade and Investment on Income Inequality: A Cross-National Sectoral Analysis of the Developed Market Economy Countries

David Jesuit, Douglas Roscoe and Vincent Mahler

158: Educational Streaming, Occupational Choice, and the Distribution of Wages

Kelly Bedard

157: American Income Inequality in a Cross-National Perspective: Why Are We So Different?

Timothy Smeeding

156: Wage and Test Score Dispersion: Some International Evidence

Christopher Ferrall and Kelly Bedard

155: Financial Poverty in Developed Countries: The Evidence from LIS: Final Report to the UNDP

Timothy Smeeding

154: Empirical Evidence on Income Inequality in Industrialized Countries

Peter Gottschalk and Timothy Smeeding

153: Reshuffling Responsibilities in Old Age: The United States in a Comparative Perspective

Timothy Smeeding

152: Income Distribution, Inequality and Unemployment

Uwe Wagschal

151: Cross-National Comparisons of Income Distribution: The Income Distribution Guideline Needs of Microdata Users as Seen from the Perspective of the Luxembourg Income Study

Timothy Smeeding

150: Noncash Benefits and Income Distribution

Elisabeth Steckmest

149: Poverty Among Single Elderly Women Under Different Systems of Old-Age Security: A Comparative Review

Jurg Siegenthaler

148: Trends in Financial Poverty in OECD Countries

Karel van den Bosch and Ive Marx

147: Poverty in the U.K.: A Comparison with Nineteen Other Countries

Jun Rong Chen and Jonathan Bradshaw

146: Inequality in Five Countries in the 1980 s: The Role of Demographic Shifts, Markets and Government Policies

Markus Jäntti

145: Universality and Selectivity in Income Support: An Assessment of the Issues

Sheila Shaver

144: Income Inequality and Poverty of Economies in Transition

Marina Popova

143: A Cross-National Look at Married Women s Economic Dependency

Pia Peltola, Suzanne Bianchi and Lynne Casper

142: Inequality and Growth

Roland Benabou

141: Poverty, Labor Force Status and the Social Safety Net

Marc Rubin