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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

561: Occupational Welfare Policies and Pension Income Inequalities: Case Studies of Pension Systems in Denmark, Finland, and the United Kingdom

Jörg Neugschwender

560: Welfare Regimes and Structures of Inequality: A Comparative Fuzzy Set Analysis of 23 Countries

Philipp Pechmann

559: Income Inequality, Relative Poverty and Spatial Segregation: Scotland and West Central Scotland in Context

Martin Taulbut

558: Policies to Reduce Child Poverty: Chld Allowances Versus Tax Exemptions for Children

Steven Pressman

557: The Middle Class in Less Developed American Nations

Steven Pressman

556: Women's Opportunities Under Different Constellations of Family Policies in Western Countries: Inequality Tradeoffs Re-Examined

Walter Korpi, Stefan Englund and Tommy Ferrarini

555: Child Maintenance and Child Poverty: A Comparative Analysis

Mia Hakovirta

554: Targeting, Universalism and Single Mother Poverty: A Multi-level Analysis Across 18 Affluent Democracies

Rebekah Burroway and David Brady

553: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Income Inequality and Wage Differentials: A Comparison between the United States and Guatemala

Ashley Owings

552: Income Inequalities within Couples in the Czech Republic and European Countries

Martina Mysíková

551: Tax Progression: International and Intertemporal Comparisons Using LIS Data

Kirill Pogorelskiy, Stefan Traub and Christian Seidl

550: Winners and Losers: The Consequences of Welfare State Policies for Gender Wage Inequality

Hadas Mandel

549: Feminisation of Poverty in 12 Welfare States: Strengthening Cross-Regime Variations?

Young Jun Choi and Jin Wook Kim

548: Does European-Style Welfare Generosity Discourage Single Mother Employment?

Lane Destro and David Brady

547: Housing and the Residential Integration of Immigrants in Luxembourg and the EU-15

Joel Fetzer

546: Comparing Government Redistribution across Countries: The Problem of Second-order Effects

Vincent Mahler and David Jesuit

545: More than Just Nickels and Dimes: A Cross-National Analysis of Working Poverty in Affluent Democracies

David Brady, Jennifer Moren Cross and Andrew Fullerton

544: Cross-National Patterns in Individual and Household Employment and Work Hours by Gender and Parenthood

Joya Misra, Irene Böckmann and Michelle Budig

543: Work-Family Policies and the Effects of Children on Women’s Employment and Earnings

Joya Misra, Irene Böckmann and Michelle Budig

542: The Motherhood Penalty in Cross-National Perspective: The Importance of Work-Family Policies and Cultural Attitudes

Michelle Budig, Irene Böckmann and Joya Misra

541: Explaining Import Variety and Quality: the Role of the Income Distribution

David Hummels, Chong Xiang and Yo Chul Choi

540: Earnings Disparities and Income Inequality in CEE Countries: An Analysis of Development and Relationships

Jiri Vecernik

539: Worlds of Working Poverty. Cross-national variation in the mechanisms that lead to poverty among workers

Giuliano Bonoli and Eric Crettaz

538: The High-Employment Route to Low Inequality

Lane Kenworthy

537: Families, Time and Well-Being in Canada

Peter Burton and Shelley Phipps

536: Economic and Occupational Integration of Newcomers

Joel Fetzer

535: Are Immigrants Paid Less for Education?

Lubomira Anastassova

534: Women, Poverty, and Social Policy Regimes: A Cross-National Analysis

Markus Jantti and Janet Gornick

533: Trade and Wage Inequality, Mirage or Reality?

Gian Maria Tomat

532: On the Meaning and Measurement of Redistribution in Cross-Country Comparisons

Peter Lambert, Thor Thoresen and Runa Nesbakken

531: The contribution of Women's Employment and Earnings to Household Income Inequality: A Cross-Country Analysis

Susan Harkness

530: Four Critiques of the Redistribution Hypothesis: An Assessment

Branko Milanovic

529: How Can the Decommodified Security Ratio Assess Social Protection Systems?

Georges Menahem

528: Per Capita Income Versus Household-Need Adjusted Income: A Cross-Country Comparison

Carsten Schröder, Polina Minkovski and Christos Koulovatianos

527: Income Poverty and Income Support for Minority and Immigrant Children in Rich Countries

Timothy Smeeding, Jonathan Gershuny, Karen Robson and Coady Wing

526: The Time Divide in Cross-National Perspective: The Work Week, Gender and Education in 17 Countries

Peter Frase and Janet Gornick

525: Keynes, Family Allowances and Post Keynesian Anti-Poverty Policy

Steven Pressman

524: Raising Utility and Lowering Risk through Adaptive Sustainability: Society and the Risk of Wealth Inequity in Western Australia

Mark Andrich, Jorg Imberger and Ronald Oxburgh

523: Families, Time and Money in Canada, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States

Peter Burton and Shelley Phipps

522: Policy Effects on Class-Gender Employment Intersections

Lynn Prince Cooke

521: Poverty and Inequality among the Elderly. A Comparative Study of the Pension Systems in Belgium and the Netherlands

Ingrid Keupers