Fukawa, Tetsuo; Oshio, Takashi - In: Journal of Income Distribution 16 (2007) 3-4, pp. 9-30
This article is an overview of income inequality trends during the 1980s and 1990s and a discussion of their challenges to redistribution policies in Japan. The key results are summarized as follows. First, a widening disparity in market income for the working-age population has been driving...