Using six waves of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the German Socio-Economic Panel we compare the relative economic well-being of Americans and Germans in the 1980s. Economic growth during the 1980s substantially improved the economic well-being of the average person in the both the United States and Germany. But the rewards were disproportionately distributed across age and gender. ...
Objectives. Our objective was to show how a woman's economic well-being changes in the United States, Germany, Great Britain, and Canada after her husband's death and the importance of public and private income sources in offsetting the economic consequences of that death. Methods. With data from the Cross-National Equivalent File, we used event history analysis to track changes in the social ...