“…Using the Luxembourg Income Study, 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 working than overall poverty. …”

“…"We examine the influence of individual characteristics and targeted and universal social policy on single mother poverty with a multi-level analysis across 18 affluent democracies. Although single mothers are disproportionately poor in all countries, there is even more cross-national variation in single mother poverty than for poverty among the overall population. …”

“…Specifically, we investigate the relationships between three dimensions of welfare transfers – “transfer share” (the average share of household income from welfare transfers), low-income targeting, and universalism – and poverty and preferences for redistribution. We analyze rich democracies like Korpi and Palme, but also generalize to a broader sample of developed and developing countries. …”

“…Using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), we conduct a crossnational, multi-level analysis of the effects of social policy generosity on single mother employment in 17 affluent democracies. We find high rates of single mother employment ? …”