This paper examines the implications of income redistribution from men to women for the welfareof married women and …

from import duties and direct taxes upon their incomes and wealth. Since total tax revenues depended on rates of tax levied … revenues. However, specific tax rates (which at that time were the norm) implied that the state’s real income would fall in …

The paper analyses changes in poverty in Britain since 1997. A povertylevel of 60 percent of median equivalised income … Survey, on which government estimatesof Households Below Average Income are based. There was a smallreduction in poverty …

This paper examines changes in earnings inequality and mobility between 1978/9 and 2005/6 using a unique dataset that … significant increases in annual earnings inequality for both male and female employees. On most measures this is greater for men …. When wider inequality is measured including periods of no earnings, inequality for men increases and for women it falls as …

, Taiwan and the UnitedKingdom. It relies upon decompositions of inequality measures bypopulation groups and income sources … (except for Japan because of datalimitations). According to national family income and expendituresurveys, income inequality … influencing income inequality are very different between thethree Asian countries on the one hand, and Britain on the other …

less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the … income generation process affects this association. Building on a two-period model of individual life-time utility …

This paper investigates to what extent the tax and transfer systems in Europe protecthouseholds at different income … levels against losses in current income caused by economicdownturns like the present financial crisis. We use a multi country … micro simulation model toanalyse how shocks on market income and employment are mitigated by taxes and transfers.We find …