This paper uses Australian data from the Negotiating the Life Course Project 1997 to investigate the impact of marriage on men's and women's earnings. We extend earlier earnings research and investigate whether the effect of marriage is constant for men and women at different points on the...

This thesis consists of revised versions of five published papers on the development of neoclassical distribution theory, in the English-speaking world together with an introduction and conclusion, which draw together the themes of the papers. The thesis covers the origins of neo-classical...

There are two main types of data sources of income distributions in China: household survey data and grouped data. Household survey data are typically available for isolated years and individual provinces. In comparison, aggregate or grouped data are typically available more frequently and...