Targeting, universalism, and single-mother poverty: a multilevel analysis across 18 affluent democracies.

Nearly universal, but somewhat distinct: the feminization of poverty in affluent Western democracies, 1969-2000.

Our study extends research on the feminization of poverty by analyzing the variation in women's, men's, and feminized poverty across affluent democracies from 1969 to 2000. Specifically, we address three issues. First, we provide more recent estimates of adult women's and men's poverty and the ratio of women's to men's poverty with two different poverty measures. We suggest that by incorporatin...

More than just nickels and dimes: a cross-national analysis of working poverty in affluent democracies.

Despite its centrality to contemporary inequality, working poverty is often popularly discussed but rarely studied by sociologists. Using the Luxembourg Income Study (2009), we analyze whether an individual is working poor across 18 affluent democracies circa 2000. We demonstrate that working poverty does not simply mirror overall poverty and that there is greater cross-national variation in wo...

Universal , but Somewhat Distinct : the Feminization of Poverty in Affluent Western Democracies , 1969 - 2000

Universalism under siege? Exploring the association between targeting, child benefits and child poverty across 26 countries.

The long-standing wisdom that universally designed benefits outperform targeted benefits in terms of poverty reduction has come under siege. Recent empirical studies tend to find that targeting is not necessarily associated anymore with lower levels of poverty reduction. In this study, we investigate for a broad set of European countries (1) the relationship between child benefits and child pov...

Economic Globalization and Increasing Earnings Inequality in Affluent Democracies

Purpose – Since the 1960s, the affluent democracies have experienced substantial changes in earnings inequality at the same time as heightening economic globalization. This paper investigates the relationship between these two processes. Methodology/Approach – I use fixed-effects models, and comprehensive measures of globalization and earnings inequality to scrutinize the relationship between t...