JNTEREST IN THE distribution of earnings and the distribution of household income was
largely a parochial backwater of economic research in the United States until the early 1980s. …

The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) database on which this article is based offers researchers
exciting new possibilities for international comparisons based on household income …

Trends in parental time invested in children since the 1960s are examined in 16 industrialized
countries using time‐use survey data. Despite the time pressures that confront today's …

The Covid-19 pandemic is shaking fundamental assumptions about the human life course
in societies around the world. In this essay, we draw on our collective expertise to illustrate …

This chapter reviews the evidence on cross-national comparisons of annual disposable
income inequality in over 20 wealthy nations. We begin by reviewing a number of conceptual …

In Poor Kids in a Rich Country, Lee Rainwater and Timothy Smeeding ask what it means to
be poor in a prosperous nation-especially for any country's most vulnerable citizens, its …

The main aim of this paper has been to summarize the impact of noncash income–health
and health education benefits, and imputed rent‐on living standards, income distribution and …

Objective. This article compares recent levels and trends in economic inequality in industrialized
nations, largely those belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and …

Poverty is generally defined as income or expenditure insufficiency, but the economic
condition of a household also depends on its real and financial asset holdings. This paper …

… -ranging investigation into why this was happening and whether it was confined to those
two countries or pervasive throughout the industrialized world (eg Gottschalk and Smeeding, …