country.This paper explores the factors behind these trends as well as the impacts of growing prosperity and rising inequality … full-time employment as a proportion of the population fell by 25 per cent. Household income surveys show that real median …

-age pensions, taxes and transfers - both contributory and means-tested - significantly reduce gender income inequality but cannot …We complement the institutional literature on gender and the welfare state by examining how taxes and transfers affect … the incomes of men and women. Using microsimulation and intra-household income splitting rules, we measure the differences …

, and examines how the membership may affect income inequality. Data from a large-scale survey of rural households in China … directly to the policy goal of reducing income inequality in rural China. … cooperative may increase farmer income in rural China, empirically assesses the impacts of such membership on household income …

-age pensions, taxes and transfers - both contributory and means-tested - significantly reduce gender income inequality but cannot …We complement the institutional literature on gender and the welfare state by examining how taxes and transfers affect … the incomes of men and women. Using microsimulation and intra-household income splitting rules, we measure the differences …