American Income Inequality in a Cross-National Perspective: Why Are We So Different?
Increasingly the rich nations of the world face a common set of social and economic issues: the cost of population aging, a growing number of single parent families, the growing majority of two-earner families, increasing numbers of immigrants from poorer nations, and in particular, rising economic inequality generated by skill-based technological change, international trade and other factors. All of these nations have also designed systems of social protection to shield their citizen against the risk of a fall in economic status due to unemployment, divorce, disability, retirement, and death... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Text |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 1997 |
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SURFACE at Syracuse University
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Schlagwörter: | American income inequality / Poverty / Social welfare programs / Socio-economic inequality / Social policy / Luxembourg Income Study / Public Policy / Social Welfare |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28695670 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://surface.syr.edu/cpr/153 |