We examine the poverty rates and the income configurations among Japan and the LIS countries. The LIS countries are Germany, Italy, the UK, Denmark, the US, and Taiwan. We divide household including elderly into five types: living alone, couples only, living with their married children, living...

Wage inequality has presumably been increasing due to the expansion of non-regular employment in Japan. However, limited studies have evaluated this, since the majority of previous studies used the Basic Survey on Wage Structure, which did not capture employment status until 2005. Herein, we use...