This article is a comparative analysis of the sources of income inequalityin four countries, namely Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the UnitedKingdom. It relies upon decompositions of inequality measures bypopulation groups and income sources (except for Japan because of datalimitations)....

This paper is an overview of the social welfare systems of five EastAsian countries, namely Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong andSingapore. It analyses the overall costs of welfare as well as incomedistribution aspects, based on both aggregate data and a programme-byprogrammereview of their...

“Light” welfare states were perceived by some as one source of East Asian economicdynamism. Didier Jacobs has examined the strengths of several East Asian socialwelfare systems and the challenges they face after the financial crisis.Japan has a fully-fledged social welfare system. Yet her...