three Asian countries. The authors use high-frequency data for Korea, Malaysia, and Thailand during the recent crisis and …

, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand since the early 1980s. The empirical results indicate continuing instability in the …

This paper compares the sources of income inequality in Japan and the United States. We exploit two longitudinal … household surveys to decompose the income inequality in both countries. For Japan, we use Keio Household Panel Survey data and … Japan (0.329), corroborating well-established previous findings. In a second step, we decompose the income inequality in …