There are worrying indications that official infant mortality counts, based on administrative data, may underestimate the true gravity of the problem in 15 countires in the CEE / CIS region, including 11 out of 12 CIS countries. However, the paper also finds that surveys are rather blunt...

This paper uses cross-sectional data to examine the relationship between the growth in earnings inequality among men, changes in women’s earnings and changes in family income inequality in Australia between 1982 and 2007-08. Male earnings inequality increased substantially across this period,...

In this paper we examine the growth of income inequality in Hungary in the early transition period. We use household budget survey data from four years between 1987 and 1993 to examine the factors associated with the levels and changes in inequality. We find that public policy inhibited the...

The Australian income tax and transfer system has undergone considerable reform since the mid 1980s. As a number of commentators have pointed out, one impact of reforms to cash transfers for families, as well as of some reforms to direct taxes, has been the evolution of a defacto system of...