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611: Measuring the Middle Class in Middle Income Countries

Rebecca Rasch

610: Globalization and Income Inequality: The Role of Transmission Mechanisms

Tanja Hennighausen

609: The Intensity and Shape of Inequality: The ABG Method of Distributional Analysis

Louis Chauvel

608: Who can (still) afford to retire early? Cross-country comparison of incomes of senior workers and young retirees using LIS data for 2007 & 2010

Carmen Petrovici and Jörg Neugschwender

607: The Impact of Economic Inequality and Gender Parity on Educational Assortative Mating: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study

David Monaghan

606: Generational Inequalities and Welfare Regimes

Louis Chauvel and Martin Schröder

605: The Capacity of Social Policies to Combat Poverty Among New Social Risk Groups

Allison Rovny

604: Income Inequality Developments in the Great Recession

Tomas Hellebrandt

603: Eugenics of Inequality: UK and US Fatherhood Premia across the Earnings Distribution, 1974-2010

Lynn Prince Cooke

602: Income Inequality and Redistribution in Post-Industrial Democracies: Demographic, Economic, and Political Determinants

Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens

601: Fast Methods for Jackknifing Inequality Indices

Lynn A. Karoly and Carsten Schröder

600: Extension of the κ-generalized distribution: new four-parameter models for the size distribution of income and consumption

Masato Okamoto

599: Family Policies, Women’s Earnings, and Relative Inequality Among Households: Trends in 18 OECD Countries from 1981 to 2008

Rense Nieuwenhuis, Ariana Need and Henk Van der Kolk

598: Women’s Earnings and Household Inequality in OECD Countries, 1973–2013

Rense Nieuwenhuis, Henk Van der Kolk and Ariana Need

597: Globalisation, technological progress and changes in regulations and institutions – which impact on the rise of earnings inequality in OECD countries?

Wen-Hao Chen, Michael Förster and Ana Llena-Nozal

596: Growth Still Is Good for the Poor

David Dollar, Tatjana Kleineberg and Aart Kraay

595: Sectoral trends in earnings inequality and employment International trade, skill-biased technological change, or labour market institutions?

Stefan Thewissen, Chen Wang and Olaf Vliet

594: Mothers' employment in wealthy countries: how do cultural and institutional factors shape the motherhood employment and working hours gap?

Irene Böckmann, Joya Misra and Michelle Budig

593: The paradox of redistribution revisited: and that it may rest in peace?

Ive Marx, Lina Salanauskaite and Gerlinde Verbist

592: Fatherhood, Intra-Household Employment Dynamics, and Men’s Earnings in a Cross-National Perspective

Irene Böckmann and Michelle Budig

591: Determinants of Household Earnings Inequality: The Role of Labour Market Trends and Changing Household Structure

Wen-Hao Chen, Michael Förster and Ana Llena-Nozal

590: When Unionization Disappears: State-Level Unionization and Working Poverty in the U.S

David Brady, Regina Baker and Ryan Finnigan

589: Household Debt and Income Distribution

Robert Scott and Steven Pressman

588: The Implications of Cross-National Policies for the Relative Incomes of Families with Children by Family Structure and Parental Education

Stephanie Moller, Joya Misra, Elizabeth Wemlinger and Eiko Strader

587: Income Polarization and Economic Growth

Michał Brzeziński

586: German Stagnation vs. Swedish Progression: Gender Wage Gaps in Comparison, 1960-2006

Svenja Gärtner

585: Housing Costs and Family Formation: Empirical Evidence

Lindsay Flynn

584: Median Voter and Power Resources Revisited: A Composite Model of Inequality

Mathew Y. H. Wong

583: Estimating Labour Supply Elasticities Based on Cross-Country Micro Data: A Bridge between Micro and Macro Estimates?

Markus Jantti, Jukka Pirttilä and Håkan Selin

582: Cross-Temporal and Cross-National Poverty and Mortality Rates among Developed Countries

Johan Fritzell, Olli Kangas, Jennie Bacchus Hertzman, Jenni Blomgren and Heikki Hiilamo

581: Disentangling Income Inequality and the Redistributive Effect of Taxes and Transfers in 20 LIS Countries Over Time Evidence from the LIS Data

Chen Wang, Kees Goudswaard and Koen Caminada

580: The Middle Classes in Europe: Evidence from the LIS Data

Guillaume Osier, Régis Bigot, Jörg Muller and Patricia Croutte

579: Family Structure, Female Employment, and National Income Inequality: A Cross-National Study of 16 Western Ccountries

Christopher Kollmeyer

578: The Context of Relative Equality: Comparing Educational Gradients in the Gendered Division of Labor in Three Liberal Markets

Liana C. Sayer and Lynn Prince Cooke

577: Income Inequality, Redistribution and Poverty. Contrasting Rational Choice and Behavioural Perspectives

Malte Luebker

576: Gender-Differentiated Effects of Parenthood on Earnings: Understanding Cross-National Variation in the Motherhood Penalty and Fatherhood Bonus

Ian Lundberg

575: The Relationship between the Equivalence Scale and the Inequality Index and its Impact on the Measurement of Income Inequality

Masato Okamoto

574: Endogenous Skill Biased Technical Change: Testing for Demand Pull Effect

Matteo Lucchese and Francesco Bogliacino

573: Income Inequality and Redistribution in Europe

Simona Tóthová

572: Evaluating Real World Income Distributions behind the Veil of Ignorance - How Risk Averse do You have to be to Prefer Europe over the US?

Tasneem Zafar and Alfons Weichenrieder

571: Redistribution Policy and Inequality Reduction in OECD Countries: What Has Changed in Two Decades?

Linda Richardson and Herwig Immervoll

570: Child Poverty in Comparative Perspective: Assessing the Role of Family Structure and Parental Education and Employment

Markus Jantti and Janet Gornick

569: Skewness and Kurtosis Properties of Income Distribution Models

James McDonald, Patrick Turley and Jeff Sorensen

568: Is the Pareto-Lévy Law a Good Representation of Income Distributions?

John K. Dagsvik, Weizhen Zhu, Bjørn H. Vatne and Zhiyang Jia

567: Disentangling Income Inequality and the Redistributive Effect of Social Transfers and Taxes in 36 LIS Countries

Koen Caminada and Chen Wang

566: Explaining the Development-Civil War Relationship

Helge Holtermann

565: The Endangered Middle Class? A Comparative Analysis of the Role Public Redistribution Plays

Ursula Dallinger

564: Why Are Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities more Affected by Working Poverty? Theoretical Framework and Empirical Evidence Across Welfare Regimes

Eric Crettaz

563: Income inequality and poverty: do the Nordic countries still constitute a family of their own?

Veli-Matti Ritakallio, Olof Bäckman and Johan Fritzell

562: Poverty in Denmark: A Socioeconomic Poverty Threshold (Paper in Danish with Executive Summary in English)

Iulian Vlad Serban